The United States is a country literally founded on rape. We cannot continue to feign surprise when the predator class does what predator's do. Eventually, maybe we will face the truth.
Thank you, Karim. You're focus doesn't wane, and you are one of the very few voices addressing the breadth and totality of this problem that confronts humanity.
Your essay answered the question your headline posed. I completely agree with your analyses and descriptions, and I would like to stress that, as you acknowledged, none of this is new.
What is different, is the Koch Brothers and the Powell Doctrine and the Heritage Foundation and several hundred adjunct Christian zealot lobbying groups have worked to buy judges and wangle the U.S. Legislature to stop taxing corporations and wealthy individuals, and so we now have billionaires, and now we have a scary and stupid manosphere.
The signs were present from the inception of the idea of an America. It was a frat fight from the start, and the mighty British didn't recognize the autonomy of their wayward brothers. The self-loathing religious settlers who were ready to kill any persons who didn't comport to the standard: God-fearing, law abiding, brutal and white, were the disease-carrying, infection-spreading toxins in the pristine wilderness where "savages" had lived for thousands of years. What had long been a land that provided sustenance, swiftly became an opportunity to conquer and control. And then, science became a blueprint for superior weapons and methods of control.
When the core principle is continual growth there are no exceptions, and this turns families into tribes and persons into loners. Today we have our heads in our phones and have to have radar to not trip over the homeless. The class war is on, and nobody can be surprised when protesters are herded into stadiums. I see and hear the calls for a socialist alternative, and that idea also isn't new, and does have popular support. But guess who is ready to incarcerate and end declared socialists?
It may be irony, but a crashed economy may be humanity's best chance at a fundamental reset. I guess we'll find out.
An excellent well written article. An extension of the imposed sick culture of manosphere is the mass dehumanisation of the oppressed and desensitision towards a genocide being watched live on our screens.
The United States is a country literally founded on rape. We cannot continue to feign surprise when the predator class does what predator's do. Eventually, maybe we will face the truth.
Agreed and I’d say it’s western civilization. To what degree is debatable but the abuse and oppression has always been prevalent in the “ruling” class
“The sickness is one sickness.” Thank you for this very well-written and clear article.
Thank you, Karim. You're focus doesn't wane, and you are one of the very few voices addressing the breadth and totality of this problem that confronts humanity.
Your essay answered the question your headline posed. I completely agree with your analyses and descriptions, and I would like to stress that, as you acknowledged, none of this is new.
What is different, is the Koch Brothers and the Powell Doctrine and the Heritage Foundation and several hundred adjunct Christian zealot lobbying groups have worked to buy judges and wangle the U.S. Legislature to stop taxing corporations and wealthy individuals, and so we now have billionaires, and now we have a scary and stupid manosphere.
The signs were present from the inception of the idea of an America. It was a frat fight from the start, and the mighty British didn't recognize the autonomy of their wayward brothers. The self-loathing religious settlers who were ready to kill any persons who didn't comport to the standard: God-fearing, law abiding, brutal and white, were the disease-carrying, infection-spreading toxins in the pristine wilderness where "savages" had lived for thousands of years. What had long been a land that provided sustenance, swiftly became an opportunity to conquer and control. And then, science became a blueprint for superior weapons and methods of control.
When the core principle is continual growth there are no exceptions, and this turns families into tribes and persons into loners. Today we have our heads in our phones and have to have radar to not trip over the homeless. The class war is on, and nobody can be surprised when protesters are herded into stadiums. I see and hear the calls for a socialist alternative, and that idea also isn't new, and does have popular support. But guess who is ready to incarcerate and end declared socialists?
It may be irony, but a crashed economy may be humanity's best chance at a fundamental reset. I guess we'll find out.
I have posted this previously, but it only seems to become more appropriate. Roy's preamble in the video is precious. It is the picture of alienation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K6aWEsfv2s
I Hate the White Man
Roy Harper
Explicit
Far across the ocean
In the land of look and see
There once was a time
For you and me
Where the winds blow sweetly
And the easy seas flow still
And where the barefoot dream of life
Can laugh and cry its fill
Where slot machine confusions
And the plastic universe
Are objects of amusement
In the fiction of their curse
And where the crazy whiteman
And his teargas happiness
Lies dead and long since buried
By his own fantastic mess
For I hate the whiteman
And his plastic excuse
For I hate the whiteman
And the man who turned him loose...
And the reins of coloured thunder
Of the stallion of the dawn
Ride the coalfire morning
On the beach where all is born
Where the emperor of meaning
Is burning up his forts
And sits to warm his toes around
A fire made up of useless thoughts
And when the children tempt him
With the riddles of their trance
He flings the flames of solstice
Casting laughs into their dance
And while a crazy whiteman
In the desert of his bones
Lies as bleached as the paradise
He likes to think he owns
And I hate the whiteman
In his evergreen excuse
Oh I hate the whiteman
And the man who turned him loose...
And far across the reaches
Of the drifting yellow sands
The living carpet wilderness
Forever joins its hands
With heaven hell's attainment
In a surging crest of fire
Where more than all is thrown upon
The ever lasting pyre
And through the countless canticles
Of Jason's charcoal fleece
Are sung the songs of nothing
In the timeless masterpiece
And there stood in the middle
Guess who?
It's the everlasting burst
Built by god's very own whiteman
As he tries to rule the dust
And I hate the whiteman
In his doctrinaire abuse
Oh I hate the whiteman
And the man who turned you all loose...
And the bowels of his city
Have been locked into a safe
Where the spew stains on the sidewalks
Are defenders of his faith
While back inside his kitchen
The bowler hatted, long haired saint
Cleans with soap and water
But it's really just white paint
While his golden headed scandal sheets
Present their daily bite
To give their righteous news-bleeders
Drugs to keep them white
While outside in the whitewash
Where the guns are always, always right
A shooting star has summoned
Its dark angel from his night
And I hate the whiteman
And his evergreen excuse
Oh I hate the whiteman
And the man who turned you all loose
And the man who turned him loose...
Written by: Roy Harper
Album: Flat Baroque and Berserk (Remastered)
Released: 1970
Lyrics provided by Musixmatch
This hits home.
Art will never be dispensable.
Another excellent piece 👏🏽
Well done! You've dissected and reassembled the malady perfectly so that anyone can comprehend the reality that consumes us.
An excellent well written article. An extension of the imposed sick culture of manosphere is the mass dehumanisation of the oppressed and desensitision towards a genocide being watched live on our screens.