So now we are at the brink of yet another war, another ‘conflict’, another ‘showdown’. Regardless of the terminology we wrap it in, human lives will still be lost, unnecessarily. Much “collateral damage”, to use the military doublespeak, except that the only damage of any REAL importance and value are the human beings on both sides who only wanted to live, but were denied their lives by their respective governments and militaries serving ‘greater’ interests.
America the Great, harlot mother of the modern war – do we think that there would be terrorism and biochemical weapons and nukes and god-knows-what-else in this world, were it not for us? The irony of these middle-east conflicts is that our own modern-day Babylon is attacking the remnants of an older Babylon, in this bitter ongoing struggle for hegemony of world power. Heaven forbid anyone dare challenge the “God-given” sovereignty of this nation, or the ‘righteousness’ of its leaders.
Sept. 11th should be known as “We Reap What We Sow Day”. At this point in the degenerate history of this commodity-controlled, power-mad nation, we deserve anything bad that happens to us; the cultural melting-pot has melted itself, and every dark city in America is a testimony to the true bankruptcy and failure of the American experiment. Thomas Jefferson would be sick with disgust at how far down we have come, and a quick perusal of his writings by any rational and clear-thinking person would engender no other conclusion. We have so overstepped the bounds of what this country was originally intended to be, that to imagine ourselves as the epitome of democracy in the world is a crass hypocrisy unparalleled in the history of civilization. Even Adolf Hitler had no such pretensions about HIS regime, and neither do Bin Laden or Hussein…
We are all human beings. We all want to live, we all want to love, we all want to be happy, we all want to be free. And the only thing that stands in the way of this is CONTROL. Be it the mass-scale physical coercion of governments or the more subtle psychological coercion of institutionalized religion, advertising/commodity culture, etc., our liberty and human dignity is threatened at every turn by those who profess to know better than ourselves, what is best for us. And willingly we follow all these powers, our minds and imaginations held hostage, our once-free spirits broken by unforgiving masters. The Empire never ended, it just took on increasingly subtle and insidious forms. We are still in Egypt, Pharoah is still building his damn pyramids, at the expense of the lives and dignities of we, his slaves…
May the Empire burn to the ground, may the world-economy dependent on American hypocrisy crumble, and may we find ourselves free and alive enough afterward to dance joyously on its ruins. This so-called nation does not deserve to exist anymore. The majority of the innocent blood, sweat and tears shed in this world in the past 200 years has been under OUR yoke in one way or another, and when we stop lying to ourselves we will begin to see this clearly.
for the final abolition of ALL power-dialectics,
David Boone
Bluffton, IN