Our Heart of Darkness

The Immigration and War Economy pt V

Lagos – Photo by Emmanuel Ikwuegbu on Unsplash

issue: #0025

Time I am, the great destroyer of the worlds, and I have come here to destroy all people. With the exception of you [the Pandavas], all the soldiers here on both sides will be slain.

--  Bhagavad Gita, 11:32

The Heart of Darkness: With the Brightest Sunlight and Diversity

They thundered out of the sandy desert, sweeping across the arid grasslands and savannahs to the south, where camels and horses could still roam freely, untouched by the dreaded Tsetse fly. This formidable insect, bringing lethargy, emaciation, and edema to both rider and their riding beasts. The zone of sleeping sickness marked the boundary where cavalry could no longer prevail. Beyond this line, where the Tsetse fly reigned, lurked another debilitating parasite, Dourine, a sexually transmitted scourge for horses further deterred invaders from venturing into the light dry forests, progressing to the dense jungles of central Africa.

Through these Tsetse free lands and beyond lived diverse peoples, each with their kings, chiefs, federations, hunter-gatherer bands, empires, democracies (yes democracies), and oligarchies. Heroes and heroines, myths and histories intertwined, demons and tricksters, fools and wise all  forming a rich tapestry of governance and culture across this wide horizon. Africa, diverse and vibrant, had yet to be assaulted by the standardising technology which had swept across Europe. Christendom abolished cousin marriage, except for aristocrats, dismantling the political technology and diversity of the clan and the tribe. This standardisation, driven by religion, led by a Pope who claimed divine authority, justified European expansion. Conquered peoples were moulded into standardised identities, their rich histories suppressed under the imposition of Westphalian nation-states, usurious national debts, national currencies, and European-model economies.

This political technology of standardisation was driven by religion and so was called Christendom, led by a pope who assumed papal authority as the representative of God over all mankind and by extension the standardisation of man was a divine edict; all other than itself being the handiwork of the devil. This provided the psychological underpin to European expansion and conquered people would be cast in the European habit under the secularised control of standardised identities. The rich ferment that was the history of these vast lands became standardised beneath the imposition of the nation state, a multiplying usurious national debt, a national currency, as standard European modelled economy and its enemy the informal traditional economy, a standardised Europeanised educational system with a kindergarten, primary school, secondary school and university, cities with telecommunication systems which were centred upon Europe, trade networks whose centre was Europe and it this was called independence. What they had before the arrival of the Europeans was backwards, primitive and the work of the devil. This dark continent is full of sunlight, and if this contradiction has never hit you then know how deep the propaganda rabbit hole goes.

The continents people increasingly standardised were now called the African, with degrees, titles and hospitals. The centuries of progress had yielded their fruits and in Kenya, Congo, Sudan, and all over the continent was a man recognisable not by their variety which characterised man but by their standardisation. The intellectual languages were French and English and all else were culture or in the case of Arabic which had by 1400 years become widespread varied and native to the continent was now an imposition of racial and racist invaders and so Africa a contorted mirror of Europe was now poised like Spain for its repeat of some primal European PanAfricanist ethno-racial political drama as the Rwandan Genocide had been played out on the vast stage of the African Great Lakes.

This was progress and with the standardisation comes the immigrant and immigration. And within this we will find some of the best educated people you will find anywhere! But it is essentially mimetic and what does it mean for political and cultural autonomy and the liberation of the region? And is it uncomfortable? Well it should be! A world of democracy,  liberal economics and Western International Organisations is the new Christendom and whosoever resists is the devil incarnate!  It's in the European Symbolic DNA as a group of teenage Apache girls would discover across the Atlantic in the USA, after they were expelled from school for partaking in a sacred Apache dance ceremony in October 2019 because the school authorities see it as satanic (link to article).

So Africa had better take notice and toe the line! African progress and modernity, is the slaying of worlds and it is not the Pandavas that will remain but the mimetic. What does African unity really mean?

Cui Bono?

As Lucius Cassius the Roman Senator and Consul would ask when faced with circumstances such as ours, ‘

Cui bono

Who benefits?’

Who benefits from this drive of global standardisation? Who benefits from the centralisation of trade, money and standardisation of economy? Who benefits from the slaughter of diversity? Yes, who benefits?

And when immigrants arrive on the shores of Europe, fleeing poverty, destabilisation and war, who benefits?

And when African resources are exploited to develop consumer goods that they cannot afford to buy, who benefits?

And when 80% of the pollution that drives global warming pours out of the West, and threatens to destroy the Anthropocene, who benefits?

When your taxes are paid to arms manufacturers to deliver arms to genocidal regimes and groups, who benefits?

When your research at university is used to make weapons, social control and psychological manipulation and fuel the Death Cult, who benefits?

Is it you that benefits? Are you part of the 1%? Do you see why the identity of whiteness which often leaves people buying into the guilt of a system which despite its fantastic achievements is built upon brutal ruthless subjugation, genocide and exploitation, when you buy into it, you are expected to defend a system  which is built to benefit the 1% and who pay dues to ensure that the rest fight their wars and manage their extraction. Your identity is perhaps their greatest weapon.

The 1% will literally burn the earth and hide in a bunker leaving us to bear the brunt of the consequences of their psychopathic greed.

There ain't gonna be heroes

There ain't gonna be anything

Oh, here it comes, here comes the night

Here it comes, hell in the night

Here it comes, here comes the night

When we all fall down

When we walk into silence

When we shadow the sun

When we surrender to violence

Oh, then the damage is done, put away that gun

I don't want to be there

I don't want to be anywhere

Oh, here it comes, here comes the night

Here it comes, hell in the night

Here it comes, here comes the night

That's right

We're fightin' for the gods of war but what the hell we fightin' for?

We're fightin' with the gods of war but I'm a rebel

-- Gods of War, Def Leppard

Who Owns the National Debt and Where Does the Money Go?

 Do I really have to answer this? Isn’t it enough for us to just keep asking and finding answers to this question? 

My name is Aaron Bushnell. I'm an active duty member of the United States Air Force. And I will no longer be complicit in genocide… I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonisers, it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.

On February 25th 2024 Aaron was acting upon what he already knew and as a warning he made us all sit up and take notice. We just didn’t realise just how terrible it was going to be and how complicit and genocidal our governments are. Whether Trump or Biden what became clear is that allowing the Israelis to continue their ethnic cleansing is not going to be taken off the menu, and according to Trump, Biden ‘the bad Palestinian’ isn’t allowing the Israelis to kill enough. He dehumanised Palestinians, he dehumanised immigrants and he dehumanised and threatened Biden. In the face of what we confront our activism must give birth to a new world, it must give and preserve life in this thanotic world! Today’s gift is genocide and tomorrow’s is climate collapse. Yes it is this dire. And if you watched the American Presidential debate, which pitted two juvenile octogenarian psychopathic assholes arguing about golf handicaps, one clearly mentally challenged and the other an overgrown teenager who has figured that lying is the best way to get ahead. If after this you still think that paying your mortgage, doing your job, being a good citizen, living green and voting in the next election is going to get us out of this mess, then we are locked in the lunatic asylum, without a key! The Kenyan Gen Z are in the streets.

Follow Gen Z they are onto something!

Immigration is not the problem, it is a symptom of the plague!

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