And fuck the Palestinians in the ass too!
Settler Colonialism style!
For "Freedom and Democracy"!
The indigenous, in this particular instance the Massachusett, helped the English colonists survive an initial harsh winter so that they could turn around and "democratize" them in return. (liberate them from their landbase and the physical realm).
Only 30+ million "democratized".
But that was necessary to allow Corporate Capitalism, Progress, to flourish!
To make the world safe for "Democracy and Freedom"!
And now, the Israelis are democratizing the Palestinians from their landbase with billions of dollars worth of US tax-payer funded armaments!
But no, we need to reduce welfare spending and social programs to address the Empire's massive fiscal deficit! Austerity! Can't have any talk of reducing "Defense" spending. We must keep the world safe for "Freedom and Democracy"!
More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before
And the Obomber opined on the War Crimes against Humanity being committed, with full U.S. backing, on the Palestinian civilians in that open air prison, Gaza:
“No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders,” Says Man Who Regularly Bombs Pakistan and Yemen
And now, with no "pristine and uninhabited" land (Columbus' description of the Americas) left to "democratize" and "make safe for Freedom" the grand irony is that this self-destructive culture, whose analogy in Nature could only be cancer, now consumes the land of its most stalwart ideological supporters, the land of McMansions and clown cars, America. This is poetic on multiple levels. Historic in that this is the fate of all empires, and Biological, in that all forms of cancer eventually attack vital organs, brains, livers, kidneys, with the inevitable end result the grisly death of the host, in Petroleum Man's case, the Planet.
The late Russel Means couldn't have summed up the poetic irony any better.
"Welcome to the reservation".
If Humanity survives the confluence of crises it is confronted with, it will be because it consciously chooses to design fractal relationship patterns congruent with the laws of the Universe; principally starting with a basal paradigm defined by compassion and empathy.
Eckhart Tolle is right, Industrial Civilization is most certainly an manifestation of our collective ego, and left unrestrained all egos, with insatiable hunger, can and will destroy their host body.
Whether or not Humanity chooses to address its ego problem remains to be seen and is by no means the only possible outcome.
Extinction is our present path.
Maybe Man is an evolutionary dead-end and will be edited out of existence. Either way, and I have said this before, I am not re-incarnating into Human form until it gets its act together. Although there is no such thing as a Utopia...
WE CAN DO WAY BETTER THAN EMPIRE.
Mass Extinction or (r)Evolution of Consciousness?
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