Thoughts on VTech Massacre
April 19th 2007 09:06
My theory is that America is not a hegemony but rather a hegemonised agent. Sounds crazy? Let's look at the international press coverage of the recent Virgina Tech massacre. There were few, if any, statements of sympathy and shock. Just like Katrina before where a triumphant BBC questioned something like this: " Why should a rich country like the US be given any aid?" There is a sense of lynching about these events; it's as if America like Hester Prynne stands on a scaffolding wearing a scarlet A and the mob round her, certain of their rectitude, pronounce judgment.
Remember such massacres are not confined to America alone. See this entry for details. None of these other events evoke this kind of carnivorous reponse.
When the VTech massacre happened, the international press round the world debated about gun control in America. Isn't this a domestic issue of the US? So why should a German newspaper or an Italian TV station be concerned about it? Don't they routinely argue that America is a bully and should stop acting the policeman? But by interjecting themselves in an American tragedy (where as outsiders they should either commiserate or be indifferent) and trying to influence the American debate, aren't they acting the bully and the policeman themselves?
The gun-control debate in America has no international ramifications, so when the internatioal press displays so much passion about it, more so, in fact, than they show for debates in their own countries, it is evident of the fact their internal mechanism is conditioned by building an internal fantasy which imagines America as a barren untouched piece of land, ripe for a new colonization, a colony of "ideas". In this fantasy, their own pet solution to world peace is acted out. But they are not American citizens and are not able to translate this fantasy into reality, hence their subsequent disenchantment with America.
This is the first stage. This is superseded by the later stage when they identify with a particular political party or an ideological sect in America so completely, that their fantasies turn to imagining political outcomes conducive to their ideological needs.
Imagine the boost to this mentality if in fact there is a willing ear to be found in the US which will take its every pronouncement as a gospel ?A sect which, because its own proffered solutions have not always been acted upon ( as a democracy, the US would not not end up a monostate), begins to imagine it as a vacuous empty waste land? If these two parties became aware of each other? The fantasy begins to have a real consequences.
Like a BDSM orgy, a ritual of contempt and gratification is enacted. It is in this way, the European intelligentsia in concert with the American Left begins to reinforce behavior and take America to a place where Americans themselves may not want to go. The institution of hegemony is complete.
Remember such massacres are not confined to America alone. See this entry for details. None of these other events evoke this kind of carnivorous reponse.
When the VTech massacre happened, the international press round the world debated about gun control in America. Isn't this a domestic issue of the US? So why should a German newspaper or an Italian TV station be concerned about it? Don't they routinely argue that America is a bully and should stop acting the policeman? But by interjecting themselves in an American tragedy (where as outsiders they should either commiserate or be indifferent) and trying to influence the American debate, aren't they acting the bully and the policeman themselves?
The gun-control debate in America has no international ramifications, so when the internatioal press displays so much passion about it, more so, in fact, than they show for debates in their own countries, it is evident of the fact their internal mechanism is conditioned by building an internal fantasy which imagines America as a barren untouched piece of land, ripe for a new colonization, a colony of "ideas". In this fantasy, their own pet solution to world peace is acted out. But they are not American citizens and are not able to translate this fantasy into reality, hence their subsequent disenchantment with America.
This is the first stage. This is superseded by the later stage when they identify with a particular political party or an ideological sect in America so completely, that their fantasies turn to imagining political outcomes conducive to their ideological needs.
Imagine the boost to this mentality if in fact there is a willing ear to be found in the US which will take its every pronouncement as a gospel ?A sect which, because its own proffered solutions have not always been acted upon ( as a democracy, the US would not not end up a monostate), begins to imagine it as a vacuous empty waste land? If these two parties became aware of each other? The fantasy begins to have a real consequences.
Like a BDSM orgy, a ritual of contempt and gratification is enacted. It is in this way, the European intelligentsia in concert with the American Left begins to reinforce behavior and take America to a place where Americans themselves may not want to go. The institution of hegemony is complete.
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