Horse:
Horse said...
You're absolutely right, I was being sarcastic but with a serious edge so
thanks for the
reply - the Pirsig quotes wre very useful.
Victorian (UK) foreign policy was to subdue each and every nation that
failed to comply
with it's favoured economic model and goals ( and even prior to this hence
the American
revolution - terrorists to a man! [and woman]) - which appears to be
identical to current
US foreign policy.
My main worry now is that with the recent apparent acceptance of a US first
strike
initiative the modern day equivalent of the drift into a WW1 equivalent
could mean
billions not millions killed.
Very dynamic I'm sure but hardly a step up the evolutioary ladder.
Hopefully the new(ish) US imperialism will go the same way as Victorian
imperialism -
before "the whole ****house goes up in flames" (Morrison)
DMB...
Exactly. Its no accident that US imperialism resembles the UK's colonialism.
The US began to absorb Europe's colonies beginning in the late 19th century.
It started with Spain's Cuba and the Phillipines in the 1890's, and was
wildly excellerated after WW2 when the UK pretty much said, "Here, take
these countries. We can't afford to keep them anymore." Naturally, the US
has developed a more efficient form of imperialism. After all, colonialism
is a rather expensive way to exploit nations. All that's left now are
puppets, allies and enemies. "You're either with us or you're against us."
And this is a source of great confusion. Most Americans believe they live in
a democratic nation, but in fact are citizens of a global thermo-nuclear
empire. And what we're seeing is not true globalism, as in the rule of
international law, so much as the world-wide export of some rather
provincial corporate values that is resulting in the massive extinction of
plants, animals, cultures and languages. Its estimated that half of the
world's 6,800 languages will be lost within a hundred years. How does a
person fight all that?
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