Friday, February 15, 2008

American Guilt By George de Poor Handlery

While the Germans were inclined to crush the source of their problems, and the Russians tended to conquer and then annex the source of its discontent, America's favorite culprit is herself. She prefers to try to weasel out of predicaments by claiming that she has caused them. From this pseudo-fact of self-hate, the US inclines to conclude that giving up and giving in will make the trouble go away.

This is about US-bashing which is the fashionable “anti”-movement of our time. By this term a culturally approved predisposition is meant. It blames robotically something for whatever seems to be ailing a community. Illustrations of the generalization are the past’s anti-Semitism, anti-capitalism or the inclination to discover a commie in anything to one's left. Hate groups had local mutations. In some countries certain minorities – Koreans in Japan, Armenians in Turkey, Hungarians in central Europe, Zionists in the Near East and the USSR – serve(d) to explain misfortune.

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