What Is Wrong with Usonians?

There’s been another school shooting, and we’ve just heard about another time our government killed innocent foreign folk in their own countries. It’s an ordinary Saturday morning in the end stage of the Empire of the United States. What’s wrong with us?

The United States was founded largely by fiends, wealthy monsters who practiced chattel slavery and were not confined in that era to Southern states. These men wanted to preserve the institution of slavery against the growing movement in Britain against it (Abolitionism in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia) and to throw off restrictions Britain had imposed against westward expansion (Royal Proclamation of 1763 - Wikipedia). The latter point is exemplified in the name “Continental Congress,” and the enduring imperialist mindset of the United States is seen in the custom whereby its people, properly termed Usonians, call themselves “Americans,” as if the United States were the entirety of the Americas. Imperialist expansion was the point of the United States from the get-go.

So what was wrong with those White men? Sure, they were racist, but why?

The Founding Fathers weren’t necessarily good Christians, but they came from a Christian culture. Christianity is the state religion of the Roman Empire, as it has evolved over time. Starting out as the Roman Empire’s spiritual justification, with a form standardized at the Council of Nicaea, which Emperor Constantine called immediately after consolidating all power in his hands through the Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy, did not produce a body of religions that minimized absolute monarchy, imperialism, or genocide. Go figure.

The Jesus movement, on the other hand, is quite different from Christianity, judging by the Gospels. How do such good things go bad?

One problem is the animal tendency of parents to seek every advantage for their children, contrary to the command that we love our neighbors as ourselves. And who isn’t our neighbor in the hyperconnected 21st century?

Another problem is that killing has become part of the human reproductive cycle, not always on an individual basis, but collectively, on the scale of nations. Ancient warfare culled population to promote healthy breeding stock and to make room for new babies, so as not to cause ecological collapse via overpopulation. Animals need predators, unless they exercise adequate self-control control in breeding, and humans were too clever to suffer enough predation from outside their species. Thus, our forefathers periodically killed other humans.

What can be done about the United States?

The matter is finally well in hand. Some people of the United States have wisely elected Donald Trump, who is destroying the power of the country he leads. The problem of the United States is rapidly being solved. I’ll enjoy living in a time when my government is sufficiently reined in to no longer make me a murderer quite so often by killing innocent foreign folk in my name.

Meanwhile, I’m compelled to watch “Bowling for Columbine” again. Let’s take the skinheads bowling, shall we? Maybe we can help them grow up. (Watch Bowling for Columbine (2002) - Free Movies | Tubi)

More on this subject can be found in the essay “Weirdness,” which begins on page 135 of my latest collection of letters, “Quantum Mechanics Isn’t Weird, but It May Be Queer.” (Found Physics Museum, Albany - Weird-Queer)