The New Year

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

-Otto von Bismark

So here we are in a new year, nothing but possibilities and potential. Many humans will be struggling this year, others will consume vast amounts. What is commonly called Globalization is more and more revealing itself as a most ingenious tool of tyranny. It is the carrot and the stick combined in one clever contraption. We wily whites have exported the drudgery that is necessitated by mass consumption to the darker portions of the human race. Millions of Asians are under the yoke of the never ending work week, the endless days of monotony and suffering that an industrialized world causes. Yet for them, not starving is a strong enough incentive to make them donate their lives to the cause of Caucasian consumerism. And what, pray tell, happens to those whom make it their duty to resist the onslaught? It gives our people the chance to once again impress the world with our penchant for organized violence and cruelty. For the past several hundred years Europeans have imposed their will upon the peoples of the world, or in some cases, simply exterminated them. This trend has yet to abate, despite the massive lip service paid to the humanitarian cause; which when measured against our inequities barely even registers (here is a graph that shows military spending). Eduardo Galeano had this to say about the process and it's largest supporters- "The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show." The combination of greed, hate, blind obedience, and a culture that has always glorified violence makes us feel that we are in the right. That somehow our position is not only justified, but the work of our own superior civilization.