The dominant narrative can be summarized in the following statements without mitigation. We deserve the right to control anyone and everyone we choose. We deserve the right to control how those we dominate are viewed. We deserve the right to control how we are seen for claiming our natural right to control anyone and everyone we choose. In the year 2025, the imperial United States is building concentration camps for migrants, using technology to impoverish the remaining population, and using the government to enrich abusers. Anyone saying otherwise–regardless of what party they support–is part of the problem. The current imperial behavior in the United States indicates that this “country” was always worse than Nazi Germany, and no one was ever going to do it better than this country.
In the reexamination of history, there is a joke about Germany that never fails to land. What does someone who sees all the problems happening because of the Nazis, but does nothing about it? A Nazi. The United States has always extracted its labor for the benefit of the dominant class, and publicly ridiculed those used for labor. Essentially, people who live in comfort have benefitted from the lie that “everyone” who works hard is unconditionally rewarded, and anyone who calls out the inconsistency is labeled as “dramatic.” For this empire to function, there needed to be universal enabling without accountability for wrongdoing, and as long as some people got what they wanted, they were happy to keep telling themselves that everything was fine. These same individuals are surprised that they cannot cleanse themselves of the bad impression their presence leaves on others.
So many people also pretended that “progress” was innocuous, and was a “natural” evolution of life events. Whenever someone noted the problem, they were sneered at and told that “progress” was inevitable. In my opinion, there is nothing so obnoxious and revealing about abusers who cannot hear the word, “no,” and for several centuries, people begged the dominant narrative beneficiaries to stop doing the things they were doing. Marginalized people begged people not to take over places they had no claim to, and the beneficiaries called them “primitive” and “ignorant.” Neighborhoods begged the empire to stop neglecting certain communities when they intended to take them over, but the beneficiaries screamed about, “The market!” Environmental groups warned about the degradation caused by nonstop extraction, but morons wanted money, and had no foresight. Therefore, “progress” was always about stealing, extraction, and degradation without repentance, which is how we arrived.
There are way too many idiots doing nothing substantive, but demanding good reputations for seeing how harmful all the atrocities are. When confronted with that inactivity, they hurl back defensive responses that hold marginalized populations hostage against their “bad feelings.” Following such confrontations, those “good people” continue to prove their ineffectiveness against fascism and bigotry by withdrawing, having done nothing to mitigate the circumstances of the oppressed. For all the people in the back, there no such thing as a “good” oppressor, and the enabler of a bigot is a bigot. The end. Quite frankly, I am seeing that all those “good” people who were eager to claim credit for not voting for this are awfully quiet when people start demanding that they divest their ill-gotten gains.
Technology is an unrepentant contributor to the rise of imperial fascism for many reasons, not least of which includes its rampant destruction of natural resources. Instead of empowering everyone, technology is taking away opportunities for income without dissolving the need for income, which impoverishes larger portions of society. Additionally, it is removing the need for education while still demanding that people acquire unnecessary education for positions that will not fund even the most basic lifestyles. Finally and most horrendously, technology is taking away the voices of those protesting the empire through imitation and flooding the airwaves. Back in the day, people used to be able to cultivate their voices in a reasonable amount of time. Now, people cannot keep up with all of the competition for attention, and the empire has deluded itself into believing that everyone agrees with its actions.
Among imperial citizens, there is a ridiculous belief that the empire should maintain a good reputation despite unprovoked, horrendous treatment of those keeping the empire in good order. With technology, there is still unrepentant propaganda circulating about how great the empire is, and imperialists are still trying to tell themselves that the empire works for everyone exactly the same way. The only good thing about the current era is that there are other powerhouses outside the empire who can convey the truth without extensive consequences. All empires fall, and to me, it is up to us to choose how gracefully we can do it, because the world does not care about preserving our unearned positive reputation.
Chasing A Dying Empire 