Turning The Gun On Themselves

There will always be an undercurrent of violence in a society that worships the gun.
There was such a situation in Europe until the Second World War. Europeans had spent many, many years massacring 'less advanced' peoples, murdering and enslaving those with less centralized political systems, whose priorities and technologies were less concentrated on murder and theft. Europeans, and particularly its ruling classes, claimed a cultural superiority based on conquest. Eventually, driven mad by their wickedness, they turned their guns on each other.
Early in the twentieth century Europe was full of idiots in uniform. Rulers liked to be seen in public wearing a uniform. Having gained its sense of superiority from its ability to murder, Europe was gripped by an ecstasy of death.
People subsumed their individuality in the mass of followers, marching all together to the orgasmic annihilation of death. In their worthlessness they welcomed pain, they embraced destruction.
‘Viva la Muerte’ was their cry, these faithless ones, these disciples of death.
The destruction of the Second World War seemed to calm people down. There were, of course many who still saw the uniformed man as a hero or a tragic figure, though most of us preferred peace and prosperity.
But in the United States of America the obsession with violence continues. Violence is actively promoted by the American regime.
The American regime is a rogue state dominated by its military. It exports violence.
America’s most successful manufacturing sector is its weapons industry. Weapons are showcased in Iraq and other unfortunate places and the tyrants of the earth eagerly snap them up. It is better to be a customer than a showcase.
For the United States capitalism does not mean trade, it does not mean competition, it means conflict and domination.
It is a society that sells its psychopathic films to the world via its American owned cinema chains.
Film after film shows the conflict between good, that is ‘us’ and bad, that is ‘the Other’. It is a conflict that can only be resolved through violence, through the death and destruction of the Other. The same basic plot runs through countless films, whether science fiction or war or whatever.
‘The Other’ is unreasonable, not 'us'. ‘The Other’ never listens, except when he hears the whistle of our humanitarian bullet. Might is Right, Might is Moral.
Now, like Europe a century ago, America is turning its violence on itself. Its government treats its citizens like a conquered population. Drugs, prison, surveillance. Like the old Europeans, Americans are reaping what they sow.