The fantasy that this is all entirely the fault of outside influence gives everyone a nice, comfortable “out” for not having to get involved or feel like they’re not doing enough.
Yeah. I get uncomfortable shades of the “stab in the back” propaganda from interwar Germany, where the Nazis blamed everyone except Germany for World War I. If the Americans can’t understand that they’ve done this to themselves then they’re never going to recover from it.
Our problem here is one that has cropped up in history over and over, which is a huge, stable, liberal, comfortable population benefitting from their state’s imperialism become aware of a schism in their country’s direction, they see two sides:
One side is screaming that the country is collapsing, burning the country’s flag, lecturing about human rights.
The other side is declaring glory and success for the mighty Empire, worshipping the flag that keeps everyone safe and comfortable.
We can argue day and night about what events and specific things started the schism and how aware the population was about the atrocities, but at the end of the day, the majority of a comfortable population is always going to veer away from change and accountability, they will always lean towards the nationalists who basically say “You don’t need to feel bad or worry, our country is fine, we’re all gonna be okay, just go back to work, pay your taxes.”
This has happened over and over, and eventually always has the same end. I wish to fuck more of my countrymen would learn about history.
The fantasy that this is all entirely the fault of outside influence gives everyone a nice, comfortable “out” for not having to get involved or feel like they’re not doing enough.
They’re not doing enough.
Yeah. I get uncomfortable shades of the “stab in the back” propaganda from interwar Germany, where the Nazis blamed everyone except Germany for World War I. If the Americans can’t understand that they’ve done this to themselves then they’re never going to recover from it.
Our problem here is one that has cropped up in history over and over, which is a huge, stable, liberal, comfortable population benefitting from their state’s imperialism become aware of a schism in their country’s direction, they see two sides:
One side is screaming that the country is collapsing, burning the country’s flag, lecturing about human rights.
The other side is declaring glory and success for the mighty Empire, worshipping the flag that keeps everyone safe and comfortable.
We can argue day and night about what events and specific things started the schism and how aware the population was about the atrocities, but at the end of the day, the majority of a comfortable population is always going to veer away from change and accountability, they will always lean towards the nationalists who basically say “You don’t need to feel bad or worry, our country is fine, we’re all gonna be okay, just go back to work, pay your taxes.”
This has happened over and over, and eventually always has the same end. I wish to fuck more of my countrymen would learn about history.