As a native-born
American, I grew up watching cowboy and Indian shoot-em-ups in which the
highlight of the movie was when the white guys in the circled wagon train shot
the Indians off their horses until all the red men were dead, and very silent.
Indians didn’t do a lot of screaming in pain when they were shot; they just
expired.
Same thing with buck-toothed Japanese,
line after line of them, charging into U.S. machine guns, falling instantly
silent and dead. It was somehow quite clean, almost antiseptic, these cinematic
rituals of death, all staged for the broadest popular consumption to demonstrate
the inevitability - and cosmic justice - of ultimate white victory over the
darker races.
This was
mother’s milk to the white American nation - which is why Richard Pryor and kids
like me rooted for the Indians. Mass murder is at the core of the American
national religion, which is a celebration of a genocidal march across a
continent filled with other, doomed human beings.
America’s
contribution to European culture was to invite “all the nations of Europe” to
come to these shores and become fellow “white” citizens, whose status was
defined by the enforced inferiority of Blacks and the remnants of the Indians.
Ritual burnings of Blacks were organized as great public festivals, attended by
thousands, staged in order to affirm whites’ collective right to commit murder.
This monopoly on violence was what made them white
Americans.
U.S. foreign
policy reflects the nation’s origins and ghastly evolution into a
globe-strutting mob, that empowers itself to kill at will.
A million dead
Filipinos at the turn of the 20th century; aerial bombing of Haitian villages
less than a generation later; the totally unwarranted nuclear annihilation of
two cities at the very end of World War Two; two million dead Koreans shortly
thereafter; three million dead Vietnamese in the next decade,; and, since 1996,
six million Congolese - all, and many, many more, slaughtered in the name of
U.S. civilizational superiority - the ghastly opiate of the white American
masses.
What kind of
human beings does such a culture produce? To paraphrase the Bible, “By their
massacres, ye shall know them.” The modern mass American murder is
overwhelmingly a white phenomenon. Yet few whites ask the question, “What’s
wrong with white America?” It is seems that white America lacks the capacity for
self-examination. It cannot grasp the simple truth, that a culture that
celebrates the annihilation of whole peoples, casually and without guilt or
introspection, is devoid of human values at its very core.
In the end, it
turns against itself. That is the simple lesson of Newtown, and Columbine, and
Aurora. The same cultural deformity creates a huge market for games like the
very popular Assassin’s Creed, whose latest version integrates individual and
group murder with events of the American Revolutionary War. American kids can
simulate mass murder all day long, and feel patriotic and smart while doing it.
Assassin’s Creed features an inter-racial cast of killers - possibly in
deference to the brown guy in the White House who owns the ultimate Kill List.
It’s the modern equivalent of the cowboys and Indians movies of my youth. The
same sickness.
AHT/ARA
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