External Contradictions

I live in a communal household, and one of the most enjoyable aspects is how I never know when I am scheduled for a fruitful conversation. We had a new housemate arrive a couple of days ago, and we were sitting up on the balcony terrace, discussing the empire and its collapse. The phrase “external contradictions” was mentioned, and I thought that it was the perfect way to describe a “nation” full of emotionally insecure people who fail to think about long-term consequences. When everyone sees the problems but the people causing the problems, there is nothing left to save, especially when everyone has been waiting for improvement over centuries.

The whole belief about “working harder” was a manipulation left over from slavery and the years of recognized indentured servitude. Puritanism was always a contradiction because most of the people writing the literature were living in relative luxury. If the only people who are working hard in a new country are told that they are “inhuman,” there is an inherent mismatch about the road to “prosperity.” Clearly, the empire was built on control, psychological as well as financial, and the more people make excuses for the mythology of “hard work,” the more people forced themselves to work to their own deaths. As the hardest working people spend their lives in concentration camps and begging for a chance to escape poverty, international eyes are looking at the lies the empire told people to keep its “batteries” running.

Another obsession is how the United States is a “Christian” nation, even though Christianity requires poverty. No, not “suggests,” not “offers as an alternative”–requires, and the most impoverished Christians all over the planet are looking at the obsessive need for wealth in the United States. The most lavish imbeciles who hate the poor and harbor contempt for strangers are seen as great thinkers and solid contributors to the human race. If the poorest people are also the most fervent, it is clear that money is seen more as a god than any deity produced by humanity. Moreover, it is clear that religion in the empire is only used to sedate those who lack the resources to change their own circumstances. The only thing necessary to avert environmental calamity is to share, and how convenient is it that the richest people are atheist, absolving themselves of the responsibility to reduce their hoard?

Finally, the imperial United States is hailed as the great “melting pot,” even when it is obvious that the dominant narrative sees those who are darker as lesser, regardless of their origins. Even based on fake history, there were three empires which enjoyed large swaths of stolen territory, and murdered existing populations to get there. The British were actually the smallest landholders in the “New World” until the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and the Spanish owned the largest portions of the modern-day empire from coast to coast. What do people from the United States often discuss? “Why do we have to heard ‘foreign’ languages spoken in our own country??” In reality, imperial residents should have had the chance to be at least trilingual, but we spent too much time lying about history, so now we go around the world being ignorant.

When too much time is spent lying about who one is, people become less and less invested in the potential that the individual could have had, and that goes for people, relationships, businesses, and empires. There has been no recognition until very recently that we could have been the cause of our own pain, but now no one is interested in helping us solve our problems. An idiot felon in the White House because privileged morons cannot relinquish their power in time to let succession happen in healthy ways–these conditions let everyone know that the empire is full of enablers. No one can fool every individual on the planet for all eternity, and people are finally getting tired of listening to a genocidal time bomb brag about how great it is when it was built on slavery and everyone else did most of the work.