Well burrowed, old mole!

Do we as a species have a compulsion to destroy our own history? No, not as a species. It is only a few of the pseudo-species that we call nations who do.

Consider what the United States did and is doing to Iraq. Is it jealousy for their lack of history that motivates them? Perhaps, but it is possible to have a short and glorious history. In the case of the American oligarchy, it is the content of their history that motivates them. To them, history is something they have to run from, escape from, eradicate and so on. It counts as evidence against them. They bulldoze the libraries and monuments to build shopping malls. Beasts.

     Let’s think of this more concretely.  Imagine the United States are a person. He is born vulnerable and charming, but as he grows he becomes quite the troublemaker. In his youth and adolescence he murders one continent and enslaves a second. Coming to maturity, he builds the most destructive weapon of war in human history, uses it, and then proceeds to hold the entire world in subjugation. Now where do we find Mr. America?

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     Civilization began in Iraq a very long time ago.  Perhaps it was not first in human history, it was among the first.  These people are indigenous to their land. It was not stolen at the end of a sword. It was not earned through foul contagion, brainwashing and outright murder.

     We can see a certain relation of opposition here around the idea of indigenousness. Americans are the least indigenous population in the world, the Iraqis are among the most.  In Iraq is preserved a birth of civilization and by implication its coming into existence. The United States does not know this perspective: founded on a destruction of civilizations, it imported civilization pre-made.    

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It is as if the United States is secretly worried that Marxism is right to say that socialism follows from capitalism by historical law. The response to the necessity of the Marxist logic–Therefore, history must be annihilated– is a psychotic instead of a rational one.

Bombing reduces matter to information. As the bombs fall, the idealist reduction of history to knowledge is accomplished by main force. The object gives way to what can be said about it, what representations of it still exist. The substantial object is destroyed and all that is left is the ideology.

It is cliche to speak of the psychotic as the person without a conscience. The really important aspect of psychosis is falling into the fantasy, the triumph of the fantasy, the conquest and subjugation of reality by the idea. The psychotic break is when “mind” wholly subjugates matter, when thought feeds only on itself.

The actual history of humankind as a species is a threat to the American oligarchy, to their Washington Consensus, their neoliberalism their free market fantasy–because it is false it must make war on reality in order to survive.