With recent blows for not helping save the Sudanese people from genocide, The U.S. has been on thin ice with the humanitarian Fairy. We all have imperalistic views, we look down on those third world countries. We laugh at the poor, and that’s what makes us feel better about ourselves in the morning. At the end of the day, they will be the the ” other”. Girgio Agamben wrote about that. He wrote that we become secure when we realize other people are suffering. That, when we are high, they are low. And that’s what makes us better then those people. We have no names to the faces of the Iraqi civilian that are killed. We dont realize they have famiies, and emotions just like us. But again we look at them as the other.
Why do we allow the participation in the hierachies that the government puts us in. Even as young children we were drilled in the game of Imperalism! Come children let’s buy Park Place for two hundred dollars! Young captialists eh? But, whose fault is it? We like to buy things! We do, that’s why every year Americans spend over two billion dollars on accessories. Silly Americans with big bank accounts. But there is a way to break free. It’s too late for the adults to possibly break free of the binaries that are drilled into their heads. It’s too late for us to break free, but we do have a choice. We do have options. We can do this.
Babies. Yes, babies. We need to have more kids. More kids who won’t have this imperalistic mindset that are empowered upon us. We need to raise children until the ages of five away from the captialist mindsets. Once we do that, we can become better people,and better citizens. Take away the Monopoly, and especially turn off the corporate news. We should all be tired of the government’s ideas on women’s issues, economic conditions in third world countries, foreign policy invasions. Worst, our imperalistic views to countries that could profit our captialistic greed and needs. The grass roots movements that enables us allows us to escape the mindsets that we have.
Sadly, people don’t respond to words. I could tell you about the coprorate greed,a nd the lies the government has been telling us. But people wouldn’t listen. Words like hegemony and oil have no meaning to the average Americans. Pragmatism is what we need. We need to take action and it all starts within one of us. It is deeper than the greed that the government masks. We could kill. We have to kill to stop the killings. But who killed the killers? Are we then murderers too? After all blood is blood, and it is just as red. We could get weapons sadly, that wasn’t the way it was suppose to be. Orginally we needed a political movement that exposed the atro cities like in Sudan for instance where genocide was as common as a walk in the park. Well, there are no parks in Sudan. But there were bodies, lots and lots of bodies. We can’t ignore the problems.
We are all humans. We all have emotions. Which is why we can’t allow the government to overtake us. I’m not asking for your money, nor do I deny the poor. I’m not asking for your dignity or for you to hand out any pamphlets to cold New Yorkers at the subway. I’m not asking for any donations though money can buy you power. But with power comes corruption eventually. I don’t seek for advertisments on Fox 5 news. I seek attention and action.
When faced with a problem, the United States only acts if it benefits them. The realism debate allows us the United States to intervene only when it benefits them, or their national security. For several past presidental campaigns, when former presidents feared they weren’t going to get elected they invaded nations to appease Americans. “Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the people of the world by a handful of ‘advanced’ countries. And this ‘booty’ is shared by two or three world-dominating pirates (America, England, Japan), armed to the teeth who embroil the whole world in their war over the division of their booty.” Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. It was written in the midst of the First World War. Its aim was to be a ‘popular outline’, showing how the resort to war was a product of the ‘latest stage of capitalism’–the original subtitle to the work. Though Lenin’s quote exposed what the governments were doing, it took no action.
Let’s take a look at a recent trend in global conflicts. It seems to me, that we are bearing witness to a new wave of human rights violations on a worldwide level. We’ve seen over 900,000 people butchered with machetes in Rwanda by Hutu extremists, over 300,000 people killed in Somalia by Mogadishan warlords, and the slaughter of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo at the hands of Serbians. Small conflicts among clans seem to be erupting into genocide all over the globe. America, as the strongest military force on the planet, is almost always there to stop it. At times, it seems as if the United States is the only nation who hears the cries of the oppressed masses, and we invariably step in to fight the plague of genocidal violence. Liberals and conservatives are constantly debating the merits of American intervention in these conflicts. From the left, we hear that US military action just worsens the problem, pulling us further into a cycle of violence. How can we hope to fight oppression and violence with more killing? The conservative view tells us that it’s our duty to use American military power to stop this oppression, and that some deaths are justified to stop the slaughter of innocents. Is spreading democracy worth killing American youth. Which is why if we train these children we can have a better future and a stronger democracy.
But what if teaching the children won’t work? What if they just can not escape the imperalistic mindsets that I’m critcizing. What if they want to go in and invade another Middle Eastern country. What if they want their government to be able to have hard power and soft power. Well, it’s simple. Kill them. Yes kill the babies. It’s the only way. We must recognize that if your children don’t have potential to reject the government and to recognzie the atrocities that the government is committing then they must die. They can not grow up to become politicans, and activists who stand for the wrong thing. Death isn’t that bad if it’s for a good cause.