In the name of creating an empire based on a false dichotomy dreamed up in the 18th century between capitalists and workers, the United States was captured by fanatics bent upon global geopolitical domination. It really wasn’t until the “have nots” sans culottes set up an irrational retaliatory form of anarchy in France that the U.S. could be later recruited to provide the firepower for such schemes. The bette noir of communism on the heels of defeat of the axis powers in WWII came as a convenient excuse to formalize the rampant military expansionism of today’s “rules based order.”
The decision to wantonly slaughter civilians in carpet bombings in Germany and then the deployment of two atomic bombs in Japan served as a sort of object lesson rationalism accepted popularly in the collective consciousness that this was now to be the role of America as superpower. This is why today so many of our citizens go along to get along with the unleashing of unending geopolitical wars short of all out thermonuclear war. We decide to look the other way convinced that somehow the wholesale human slaughter that we engage or accede to is in the end a sort of necessary price to pay for “normalcy.”
If anyone or anything would threaten to disrupt this false normalcy narrative of the necessary control of what Eisenhower called the military industrial complex then there must be a curtailment of those threats. Whether or not this is even consciously examined by the populace is beside the point. The acceptance of the rules of the game acts as consent. There are always rationalizations.
