The Pathology of America: Dehumanization, Greed, and the Decline of Empire

What? I mean, this is a typical pathology of The United States, to be honest. If you have something that they want, if you have something that they need, then they hate you. They demean you and they dehumanize you. You're not just an enemy to them.

You're not even human. They need you to not be human, so that they can morally justify to themselves all of the cruelty and the brutality that they will employ against you, to exploit you, to use you, and to, pillage whatever you have that they want. Because they wanna be able to enslave and abuse you in good conscience. The most obvious example, of course, is slavery. But of course, that was just one, maybe the most acute and the most grotesque form of dehumanization that they did.

But this is this is just their way. You know, from the enslaved Africans, they wanted their labor, and they wanted the wealth that was produced by their labor. Now other nations had slaves. The Muslims had slaves too, but no one else in history, no one else in the world, assigned slaves subhuman status. As I've talked about before, slaves in the Muslim world could rise to an even higher socioeconomic status than their masters.

In In the Muslim world, the slave and the owner were brothers. But in America, the slave was considered a beast of burden and the owner of the slave was a sadistic beast master. Now they needed it to be this way. They needed it to be this way because fundamentally they do not know how or do not believe in peaceful, equitable transactions. They don't believe in mutual benefit.

Mutual benefit to them represents some kind of loss for them. They don't believe in harmonious relations, fair transactions, fair exchange, and all of that. They believe in conquest. America was built on stolen land and sustained by stolen labor. And it has a long standing habit, a tradition of dehumanizing those who possess what it desires.

So for the African slaves they were dehumanized for their labor, for the sweat and tears that built the foundation of a nation claiming freedom for all. But they had to dehumanize them in order to make that claim, you see. Because they wanted to be able to pretend that they were good, righteous, enlightened people who believed that all men are created equal. But they also wanted to continue treating African slaves as less than human, as less than equal. So they had to invent this idea that, well, they're not fully human.

So therefore, it doesn't count. It wasn't a violation of their principles to treat beasts of burden as unequal. By dehumanizing them, they were able to convince themselves that chattel slavery didn't contradict with their claims of virtue. Or you can look at the native Americans. The indigenous inhabitants of that land for centuries were dehumanized for the richness beneath their feet for the land.

They were pushed to the margins. Their cultures were erased. The lands that they held sacred were violated all for America's insatiable ruthless hunger for more, for expansion, for dominance. They don't understand the idea of coexistence, of peace and harmony. They believe in the philosophy of the last man standing.

That's their approach to the world. First within, what's now the territorial United States, and then the entire Western Hemisphere, and then to the whole planet. This is what they applied. Mexico, Central America, South America, you see the Latin Americans, their natural resources were sought, and so their sovereignty was trampled upon. America's pursuit of what it desires has always been characterized by exploitation, domination, and subjugation.

For all their talk about capitalism and the market, you know, free exchange and so on. For all their talk about this, it's not what they practice, and it's not what they fundamentally believe. For them, capitalism means we make the money, we make the profit, we benefit. Everything is ours and nothing is yours. Well, that's not capitalism.

It's barbarism. It's piracy. You can't go into a business deal or a negotiation with that mentality. That's the mentality that you have when you commit a bank robbery, not a business agreement. But you see, they can't admit to themselves that they're actually just glorified pirates, glorified mafiosos, marauders, because they have a need to believe about themselves that they're good, enlightened, civilized people.

So the only way that they can reconcile their barbaric instincts with their need to believe in their own goodness is by dehumanizing everyone else, dehumanizing everyone who has what they want, and they want everything. The United States is the only country in the world who literally and seriously believes that control over the entire planet is vital to their national interests. Imagine. And we've gotten used to American dominance. We think the world actually has to operate like this.

We imagine that there's no other way for international relations to be carried out except by means of hegemonic power. But of course that's not correct. Just because one country or even a few countries have more power than others, that does not necessarily mean or automatically mean that everyone else just has to kowtow to them and be exploited and be pushed around and do as they're told. It doesn't have to be like that. That's a western model.

And it originates from the western psyche which developed through their own peculiar history and their own peculiar culture. Not everyone's like that. In fact, most people aren't like that. Are you like that? Of course not.

It's abnormal. The truth is that even most average westerners, most average Americans are not like that. And I think it's even less and less prevalent now among the common people in The United States precisely because their own government, their own elites are now dehumanizing even them, subjugating even them, treating their own citizens as a subcategory of the human race who deserve to be exploited and disposed of after use. That's how the West and how America is treating its own people now, not just the global South. And, yes, it's abnormal.

It's pathological. It's sick. And most people, even, most states around world are not like that. There's something wrong with you. Mean, China's not like that.

China, by most metrics, is the largest economy in the world. It's a global superpower, not a regional one. It's a global superpower, but it's not trying to dominate and subjugate the planet. The Chinese approach to international relations is compatible with the historic Muslim approach to international relations. This is why we get along.

This this approach is one of harmony, mutual benefit, bilateral and multilateral cooperation. They don't feel that they're losing money if both of you make money. They don't regard your prosperity or the prosperity of others as a threat to their own prosperity. They believe in mutually profitable transactions. You know, for the Chinese, if you have something, that they want, if you have something that they need, well, makes you important to them.

It makes you someone that they want to get along with. It doesn't make you an enemy. It doesn't make you or it doesn't make them want to invade and colonize you. And understand this isn't necessarily based on any particular morality or moral principles, it's just simple practicalities. Good business.

If you wage war on a country, then only some segments of your economy will benefit from that. You know, weapons companies, reconstruction related industries, and so on. But there are huge segments of segments of your economy which will suffer because of war. To the average Chinese business person, when they see casualty figures from say the war in Iraq or wherever else, they see from those casualty figures, well that's just that many more people who will not be customers that we could have sold to because they're dead. That doesn't make practical sense.

That's not good business sense. Forget about the moral right and wrong of it. Just from a practical business perspective. Casualties of war don't go shopping. I mean until recently, The US economy was war driven.

It was the military industrial complex. That was the driver of the American economy. But manufacturing as a percentage of The US economy has declined considerably since Eisenhower first talked about the military industrial complex. Things have changed a lot. I think it's it's reduced from around 32% to less than 10%.

And about today, 90% of American manufacturing is not connected to the US military. That means that other business sectors have greater influence than they used to. Business sectors that may not necessarily benefit from war and but can actually be hurt by war. And as the domestic economic dynamics have changed, as you know, so too have the domestic power dynamics with the rise of private sector power and the globalization of private sector power to where now the owners and controllers of global financialized capital are no longer tied to American prosperity. In other words, the old American model of domination and subjugation is not as appealing as it used to be because the OCGFC have more diverse interests around the world.

And I think that they, being profit driven and being practical, are going to be inclining more and more towards the Chinese approach to international affairs, the Muslim approach to international affairs, the BRICS approach to international affairs. And I think that's what's happening. Because, yes, there will always be a segment of say Larry Fink's portfolio of BlackRock clients who can profiteer in the wake of war. But at this point I think that there's a far greater proportion of clients in his portfolio who won't benefit from war and who would be harmed, whose whose interest would be harmed by war, and that means the death of Washington neocons. So the military industrial complex created a monster, the neocons, the neoconservatives in Washington whose policy proposals for any any kind of international policy proposals always involved bombing.

So they created this monster, but now that monster is redundant. It's obsolete. It's become a liability. But it's like an old device that cannot support a software upgrade. They can't adapt to the new political and economic landscape so you still have these dinosaurs like Victoria Nuland calling for war with Iran for example, but the OCJFC in my opinion do not want a war with Iran.

So you have this comical exchange that took place, that were reported they took place between The US and Iran during talks in Switzerland where they were telling Iran, let us conduct some attacks inside of Iran just for show, basically to appease the dying wishes of the neocons on their deathbed, but please don't retaliate. We don't mean it. Just let us do some attacks, and we won't escalate after that. And, of course, Iran said, well, no. If you attack us, we will regard it as an act of war, and we will retaliate against your bases in the Middle East.

Of course, attacks against US bases in the Middle East will mean the destruction of everything that BRICS and the OCJFC and BlackRock have planned for the region. So, no, Washington, I don't think, is gonna get the approval for that. So then Biden is left with the only way to appease the neocons being to attack Iranian assets outside of Iran, attack them in Iraq and in Syria and so on. So you see how they're getting put in check? Because the global power dynamics have changed and The US is being forced now to try to adapt and it's an entirely new experience for them, and they're adapting badly.

Because again, it's just it's just not their nature. They're offended, at any constraints on their belligerence. They're indignant at the idea that the whole world should not just offer them tribute and gratefully subordinate themselves to American power. They can't stand it. They can't it doesn't compute in their minds.

This is a habit of thinking that predates their actual power and then having power just made it worse. And I don't think that anyone, most of all, the OCGFC believe that they can ever change, and that's why I think America is gradually being sidelined and being abandoned by the global elite, because they're incapable of updating their software, they're incapable of updating their mentality, and they're incapable of civilizing because having had the ability to impose their will around the world meant that they never had to civilize, and they don't actually possess any internal motivation to do so and they never did. So ultimately I think that they're gonna be left behind, And it's starting to dawn on them I think that they're being left behind. But at the moment I think they're still in denial. I think they're in denial.

I mean because look, practically speaking, how exactly are you supposed to ever dial back from dehumanizing whole nations, whole countries, whole populations, and then treat them and expect to be treated by them in any kind of normal way. I mean, again, at the situation inside The US with African Americans. Until today, the racial situation in that country isn't normal. They still don't know how to deal with each other in any kind of a normal way. And the same applies now for the rest of the world and The US.

Their relations with the rest of the world is very similar to their relations between the former slave owners and the former slaves. Because you dehumanize people, and how are you supposed to get past that? How are you supposed to get that out of your own mind, and how are they supposed to get it out of their own mind about you? It's very difficult. So now the same dynamic, the same dysfunction is going to potentially permanently plague America's relations with the rest of the planet.

I mean in some ways you could say that BRICS, the BRICS countries are almost performing kind of an intervention like with an alcoholic or a drug addict. The US is reaching rock bottom and BRICS is performing an intervention to force them to see, to face what they really are and how they really are and forcing them to see the way they're gonna have to be if they want to recover any kind of respectable role in the world. But until now I think The US is in denial, they can't face it. You know, Europe is kind of like that last friend of a drug addict who sticks by them until the end, Until finally the addict steals from them and lies to them and betrays them too and eventually they'll lose even that friend. You know, it's like that song says, America's smoking all of its friends down to the filter and the inevitable reckoning is coming, and it's gonna be hard.

But by the time it comes, I don't think anyone will really be interested because by that time the world will have already moved on.