“The U.S. air war in Japan
was one of the most ruthless
and barbaric killings of
non-combatants in all history.”
General Bonner Fellers: MacArthur’s Intelligence Chief
The recent anniversary of
the mass murder that took place in Hiroshima, followed three days later by another
mass murder in Nagasaki, would have dominated the consciousness of a nation in
remorse for past horrors committed under the degenerate belief of justifiable
homicide as long as it's warfare. As the comment above helps make clear, these particular
acts of dreadful violence were only unique in that one bomb was used for each
city, instead of the thousands used to set fire to entire cities in Japan and
Germany and immediately burn tens of thousands of their inhabitants to death.
American ingenuity made it possible for an early and perverse form of one-stop-shopping
as entire populations were slaughtered and cremated in one action, without need
of camps, chambers, ovens or any other real or legendary forms of brutality.
But hardly a moment was wasted on those past horrors given that America
suffered tragedies occupying national consciousness due to what we’re told are
Trump inspired outbursts of racist-sexist- madness, as usual having nothing to
do with the political economics of blood profit capital but all about evil
individuals and special categories of “identity groups” different from all
other members of the human race. Somehow, this fanatic fundamentalism still
works to keep us shopping, killing and destroying the environment in pursuit of
ever greater personal fortunes for some, appalling poverty for far more, and
majorities sinking into unpayable debt and facing planetary doom if radical transformation
of the prevailing political economics are not performed for humanity’s sake and
not just the pleasure of a minority identity group we worship: the rich.
With most of the nation
under the control of mass media even more powerful than it was in the days of
world war two, corporate mind management has us in a state of mourning over
tragedies which cost the lives of 30 innocent Americans over a period of three
days. Said to be murders committed by the mentally ill or fascists inspired by
the evil trump, or both, the villains have some foaming at the mouth under
around the clock bombardments of stories of the innocents, mourning by
thousands and worst of all cries for vengeance against alleged fascism and/or
white supremacy in a national racist mental ward counting deaths by identity
group other than the human race and not noticing that most of the recent
American victims were of the racist designated “white” group.
To put tragic deaths in
perspective, while these poor souls were being murdered in Gilroy, El Paso and
Dayton, some 200 other Americans, equally innocent of anything other than
possible driving errors, died in the raging road wars of our overwhelmingly
private profit transit system. It kills an average of 100 of us every single
day and little if anything beyond a small notice appears in local newspapers
with hardly anything said about the national insanity of such suffering
inflicted on innocent people no more guilty of wrong than any of the poor souls
murdered by affordable gun owning citizens in a nation with more than half a
million humans who cannot afford the market force to enable them to find a
place to live. That damned Trump! Oh wait…maybe it’s Putin? Or perhaps Oprah,
Dracula or Joe Biden?
Those who think this nation was a Garden of Eden until the
dreadful Trump became president need to learn their country’s history and not
just that of one or another identity group somehow experiencing history in a
vacuum of suffering or wealth while tens of millions of other people simply
amount to works of fiction at best and matters of intense disrespect and
outright bigotry, at worst. What is going on now isn’t even slightly new and
blamed on one or another set of villains it displays a pattern in operation for
generations and getting worse by the minute.
Trump is as much an aspect of
our system as diversity, war, sex, jazz, TV, shopping, deceit, slander, pets,
propaganda and love. All that is good and bad is hidden by some calling every
American social disease since our founding as something of his creation. The
continued divisions of Americans into racial categories in defiance of all
science let alone common sense continues the work of individualism and racism
that make us such a unique historic nation able to call itself a democracy
while controlled by billionaires while millions of our children live in poverty,
hundreds of thousands of our families live on the street and we spend trillions
on war and billions on our pet animals. Is this a great country or what? Or at
least it was until the vile Trump arrived, according to some who’ve been mentally
murdered by the assault on consciousness conducted for generations but never
quite as vile and all encompassing as at present, with the empire sinking
faster and the danger to humanity growing at an even greater speed.
The American mass murders of
the second world war in Japan and Europe were closely followed by mass butchery
that killed millions in southeast Asia and our savage behavior towards
humanity, under command and ownership of our royal 1%, has slaughtered more in
the middle east over the last twenty years than we have sacrificed to profit
making transit on our highways. This, while an upper class has expanded
slightly, including what racism identifies as “people of color”, and some other
groups previously trashed and treated as less worthy of life than what passed
for “normal” have become acceptable members of the market hordes consuming more
trash with less money. Meanwhile, our poverty and prison populations explode in
this material land of over consumption for a minority that would make the
originator of the term “conspicuous consumption”, Veblen, apologize for mincing his words
in critique of capital.
We are told by legend and
there is some material foundation for belief that in biblical times every few
years there was a forgiveness of debt and it may have been easier for
civilization, or what it was called then at a time long before the savage
circus we call a democracy, to clearly see and react to a reality that could
not go on without radical change. Of course, those poor souls didn’t have what
we now are taught to call “social” media, which makes us so much smarter than
those poor fools of the past that we can carry the burden of trillions in debt,
the continued slaughter of human beings all over the planet including our own
domicile, and rage against the latest white house pinhead in the fashion of the
clients and crew of the Titanic screeching about the lousy captain as they were
about to drown on a sinking ship that, like everything else then and since,
would never have existed without the motive of private profit, and the public
good be damned.
We may be able to elect a
new CEO of Capital Inc in 2020, if we don’t destroy even more than our
electoral façade and sink in our own sea of political, social and environmental
excrement before being able to vote. But if we simply choose another
chairperson for the system of private capital and do not demand and execute a
social revolution that puts all humanity before any single un-chosen
figurehead, we will face far more than personal need for therapy visits or
social prayers for divine intervention. All of us or none of us was the call
much earlier in our history and it has never had more meaning than at present.
In closing, the words of a truly great American sadly unknown to many
of us:
“ Democracy can become truly
a rule of the people only when it is extended to the economic life of the
people”
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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