Can America overcome its sickness, or is it terminally afflicted?
American supremacy is a sickness rooted in genocidal foundations, fueled by an insatiable hunger for domination that necessitates the dehumanization of any people or nation standing in its path.
The United States suffers from a pathological need to dominate, dehumanize, and destroy those who possess what it greedily seeks to exploit. This sickness has infected the American psyche since the genocidal founding of the nation, building its wealth on stolen land and stolen labor.
The origins of this pathology can be traced to the institution of chattel slavery, when White masters needed to view their Black slaves as less than human in order to justify their cruel bondage. But the dehumanization did not stop there. Native Americans were slaughtered and demonized as "savages" for daring to exist on the territories White settlers demanded. The United States expanded through conquest dressed up as manifest destiny, predatorily eyeing half of Mexico and seizing overseas colonies.
This legacy of dehumanization continued into the modern era, culminating in the mass extinction rampage of the so-called “War on Terror.” Following 9/11, the demonization machine shifted focus to the Muslim world, portrayed as populated by fanatical terrorists hellbent on destroying America. These manufactured threats were used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, reducing millions of lives to mere statistics in the march for imperial plunder. Under the naked imperialism of the “War on Terror,” US military bombs and bullets treated people of the Middle East as disposable extras unworthy of basic rights or freedoms. In the eyes of the American war machine, the inhabitants of Iraq and Afghanistan were not human, but obstacles to be removed in the quest for absolute geopolitical dominance cloaked in a false crusade against evil.
The thread running through centuries of American barbarity is an insatiable hunger for more, wrapped in a false mantle of superiority. Other nations and peoples are viewed merely as objects to dominate, resources to extract, and obstacles to erase. Coexistence based on mutual respect and benefit violates the winner-take-all mentality etched into the DNA of United States foreign policy.
This manifests in demented worldviews claiming that US global hegemony is vital to humanity's future, or that the prosperity of other nations somehow diminishes American greatness. Such pathological delusions underlie the treatment of independent countries seeking self-determination as mortal enemies to be crushed through sanctions, subversion, and violence.
China's win-win approach to international cooperation, benefiting all participants, is alien and threatening to the American psyche. The US fears multipolarity, jealously guarding the monopoly of power it sees as its divine right, even as its relative economic dominance rapidly recedes. Unable to match China's infrastructure investment, poverty alleviation, and technological advancements abroad, America relies on military force to cling to global supremacy.
But the sober minds of entrenched global capital have begun to see US belligerence as an expensive liability damaging their transnational interests. For them, China's model of mutually beneficial development agreements offers more profitable returns. The dying dinosaurs of the US war machine find themselves abandoned by the world's oligarchic elite who once funded their reckless imperial adventures. The Beast Master slips into madness as the beasts turn away.
Yet the dehumanizing contempt for non-Western lives is too ingrained to be easily discarded. America cannot simply play a constructive role among equals, for it was never forced to develop the maturity demanded of leadership. Power corrupted absolutely. So the arrogant delusions continue as the US is relegated to the dustbin of history.
The question remains – can America overcome its sickness, or is it terminally afflicted? Perhaps the intervention of a multipolar world can jolt the US into self-reflection, triggering a national rehabilitation to exorcise its demons of supremacy. But this would require abandoning assumed exceptionalism and confronting atrocities committed in the name of empire. A monumental reckoning with centuries of buried darkness. The habits of imperialism do not die easily, nor do moral debts disappear. Yet truth may still offer a path to collective healing.
The first step involves educating the citizenry but drug abuse/addiction, deteriorating mental/physical/social health, the economic burden, and hyper individualism etc significantly impedes political intellectual growth of the American populace. It will consist of acknowledging limitations due to circumstance while having an unwavering revolutionary imagination to progress thoughts and ideas to capture the hearts and minds of the people.