Pico de Orizaba

Pico de Orizaba
Taken from Huatusco, Veracruz, the closest town to Margarita's family's ranch.

Friday, May 26, 2017

Terrorism, over-population, competition for resources and "middle-class" (American) excesses...

Response to a commentary on Facebook about the Terrorist Attack in Manchester England

Original Post:  

"Just thinking out loud. I am sitting in the center of Cambridge just opposite Kings College, looking around and feeling so proud to be a part of this community. I see Indian ladies passing by in the most beautiful saris and choli tops, Orthodox Jews in their kippahs, I see Muslim girls in hijabs,I see Africans, Asians, Europeans, all speaking different languages. And I am thinking, how cool is that! How cool, that people came into this country, but managed to keep their language, their national clothing, their cultural identity. How cool that all these people are mingled together and accept each other's difference. I am very concerned that after the recent tragedy in Manchester, the level of racism and intolerance will plummet. Again. But I think that the whole nations, or religions should never be judged by the action of the few fanatics. The strength of this nation is in its diversity. Only diversity brings progress. Cultural, intellectual, even biological diversity is the main attribute of progress. Closed borders, suspicion, racism and uniformity are the beginning of the end. They are the route of stagnation and degradation. Of course I think that people, who come to live in this country should learn its language and history and obey its laws. But other that that, I believe they are free to keep their national individuality and should never be judged by their race or religion. We are all people of the earth. We are all the same. And we all deserve peace, respect and acceptance."

Ross:  But I do wonder what the nation/nations has/have done to recieve such attacks. One of the reasons for such incredible diversity is the horrible colonialism and imperialism in the past and present

She: "Very true. I believe my country is reaping what it sowed in previous generations in some ways."

Ross:  James Baldwin wrote the novel "Above My Head" basically attending to the incredibly complex issue of historical racism or the heritage of slavery of Africans in the U.S. and the "black" experience during the civil rights movements... During one part of the novel, the main character (a gospel singer turned rhythm and blues/soul singer of African descent) is talking with his French lover ("white")... The French lover explains that France was actually a victim within the conquest of Africa... "a VICTIM???" 

Victim of colonializing half of Africa? How could that be? 

But, the explanation, although clearly written as a riddle, is interesting: 

Capitalism was "invented" in England just before the discovery of the Americas, before England created the first Industrial Revolution... To compete with navies and armies in Europe at the time, each country must encounter the means of obtaining fist-fulls of money in seconds... Remember that the European countries with coasts and navies ended up being the "rulers of the planet"... Truthfully, it didn't matter that one fleet sunk the fleet of another country... as long as the kings had money in their coifeurs for replacing those ships... 

It doesn't matter how many billions of trillions of dollars were thrown into the garbage manufacturing nuclear arms between the USSR and the U.S., although those arms were never used... 

Get my drift on that point about the navies? 

So, in order to keep your head above water and your country afloat during such European competition from the 15th century through the 19th century, France had to obtain lands high in natural resources...

(as England would learn when it lost the cotton and wool market to the U.S. in the 19th century, when the U.S. began the second leg of the Industrial Revolution, human bodies are also natural resources)...

and they couldn't compete with England and Spain in the Americas, nor with England in Asia... So, they HAD TO conquer Africa... The repercussions of such a history places France in a victim status...

The terrorism is directed against the original conquerers and against who is deemed ally to the "white devil"... And it doesn't matter how diverse is the country and who wonderful lives are lived by the immigrants and the "people of color"... 

What matters is how each government acted against the countries of the people who have decided that they are "white devils"... How those countries depict the other countries and peoples... When George Bush Jr. began his wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, the "crusades" language he and others used justifying the U.S. and NATO's actions was extremely clear... The U.S. is "the Santa Crusada" (during the Crusades, certain Kings were labelled emperors of the Crusade and led armies against "The Infidels"...) 

When the "two sides" (as if it was truly a dichotomy) can decide to change the language and the perceptions/perspectives, truly and sincerely and honestly erasing the titles "Crusades" and "Jihads", erasing the need, then the terror will cease... But, there is a certain built-in need for maintaiing the hostility, the dichotomies, the violence... Until then, things will continue escalating... 

the evolution of culture and technology is moving too fast for people to sit back and consider... Knee-jerk reactions and the addiction for quick stimulation combined with immediate gratification and immediate and simple responses, makes it incredibly difficult for people to take the time necessary for truly considering... throw in explositions in public spaces and now no one has time for consideration, everyone is thrown into panic within an urgent and horrifying situation, which is why it is deemed terrorism... A local government can manipulate its own people with terrorist attacks... You don't need an outside attacker to accomplish your goals for moving the people as you wish... In the name of "millions", a few lives are sacrificed... afterall, in 1980 we were 4 billion people... In 2017 we have almost doubled that population... easy for strategists to forgive genocide and see people as numbers and not as individuals... And how do you feed so many people? How do you offer so many people jobs, especially when capitalism means economizing, being as austere as possible, automizing, removing the excess workers, the bank tellers for instance... 

Remember Pink Floyd's song "US and Them"? 

How do you turn the Islamic people, the Jews, the Africans, the Asians not living in Great Britain into part of the "US" part of the "WE"? 

And when the workers began losing their jobs but see a continuous influx of immigrants... who for some reason are able to eat, still...? 

Just so you understand, I live in Mexico for 14+ years... born, raised and educated in the U.S. I see the Mexican reality of why so many enter the U.S. "illegally" from this side... watching the "Trump-related" events from here... Learning about the terrorist events in Europe here... And, to tell you the truth, not even the "American Intellectuals" and people supposedly concerned about human rights etc, care about what I describe?  Why not?  Because they are only acting a certain role they've been taught means being an American... If it's a social gathering and the topic is such... grouply accepted... everyone seems concerned and interested... good people...  But, when it's not about participating within a role, a theatrical performance, what really matters to them is their creature comforts... their right to relax... after 5pm and weekends and vacations, not understanding that that's not the norm for most of the world...  and wasn't the norm for their "forefathers"...  and those creature comforts end with terrorist attacks and crashed in the economy or incredible rises in the cost of farm goods, especially with Trump smashing the sledgehammer on Mexican exports to the U.S.; the highest percetage is agricultural product necessary for feeding "Americans" as they wish for eating, but at the lowest prices possible...  for the highest paid workers on the planet...  

"Mexicans" love the idea of Hitler and Nazism... even though, had they understood the truth about Nazism, they would understand that they too would have been horrible victims had Hitler's people arrived in force in the Americas... 

One must ask "whys" before making final conclusions... just in case you see some of my statements as justifications of genocide... 

The culprit is historical... and is so ancient, dates back well before the invention of monotheism and modern religion, meaning that it dates back to well before Judaism... it dates back to the aftermath of the Ice Age... which is over-population... Natural survival instinct and protection of the family (survival instinct) and the community became horribly exagerated... seems like a communal mental illness of aggression and paranoia... obsession with control, power and accumulation... hedonism to the extreme... When do the wealthy determine that they have enough... Why can't the middle-class or upper-middle-class "Americans" live without increases or live as had their grandparents, without excesses?

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