The Blind Man
Illuminated Attitude Adjuster
I really hope I can build with fellow Coli Members on what is for some a very difficult topic to discuss.
I was born in England, my father wasn't born here, Ma Dukes was. Both sets of Grandparents chose to come to this country.
The xenophobia here is crazy, it's an Island, often invaded throughout history. The original people (whatever that means) who lived are long gone, lost in the annals of time, few theories but nothing concrete. All that remains is an amalgamation of traditions of various invading peoples.
I shift my focus on to America, the New World, a continent and culture that fascinates me.
By no means am I an "educated" individual but my interests leads me to read a great deal and from many different sources. It appears that the birth of a Nation/Empire comes via a great deal of bloodsheds, genocide, theft, feudalism, racism, misogyny and other proclivities of Mankind.
According to the history of our primate species, this has happened continuously, maybe from us becoming the dominate Hominid species.
I see nothing present in the world to think it's something we have managed to remove from our "way", maybe we cannot remove it, maybe we just don't want to remove it however much we profess to do so.
The environment and causality of my family being in the country which I was born were, like most, not a positive one by any stretch. But as I sit in the privileged position how do I view those events or events like them around the world.
I fear the way in which we apply our moral standards, however, subjective or indeed arbitrary, to history often betray or contradict the situation we find ourselves in the present.
America seems to epitomise this in a way other nations/empires cannot because we bear witness to the (ongoing) result whilst fully comprehending the violence on which it was built.
I just listened to a discussion between three individuals. The first is an American because their family chose to be. the second an American because their family was enslaved and trafficked to the country. The third, an American as the result of Americas foreign policy leaving the birthplace of their family inhabitable for someone who believes in a democracy, free speech and capitalism.
All proud to be American yet divided by the means in which their families arrived, we no wish to be anywhere else. They have more in common than not and a whole lot better off than the majority of humans on the planet. But at odds nonetheless.
Does the end justify the means or do we condemn the means yet enjoy the spoils the "end" allows us.
I was born in England, my father wasn't born here, Ma Dukes was. Both sets of Grandparents chose to come to this country.
The xenophobia here is crazy, it's an Island, often invaded throughout history. The original people (whatever that means) who lived are long gone, lost in the annals of time, few theories but nothing concrete. All that remains is an amalgamation of traditions of various invading peoples.
I shift my focus on to America, the New World, a continent and culture that fascinates me.
By no means am I an "educated" individual but my interests leads me to read a great deal and from many different sources. It appears that the birth of a Nation/Empire comes via a great deal of bloodsheds, genocide, theft, feudalism, racism, misogyny and other proclivities of Mankind.
According to the history of our primate species, this has happened continuously, maybe from us becoming the dominate Hominid species.
I see nothing present in the world to think it's something we have managed to remove from our "way", maybe we cannot remove it, maybe we just don't want to remove it however much we profess to do so.
The environment and causality of my family being in the country which I was born were, like most, not a positive one by any stretch. But as I sit in the privileged position how do I view those events or events like them around the world.
I fear the way in which we apply our moral standards, however, subjective or indeed arbitrary, to history often betray or contradict the situation we find ourselves in the present.
America seems to epitomise this in a way other nations/empires cannot because we bear witness to the (ongoing) result whilst fully comprehending the violence on which it was built.
I just listened to a discussion between three individuals. The first is an American because their family chose to be. the second an American because their family was enslaved and trafficked to the country. The third, an American as the result of Americas foreign policy leaving the birthplace of their family inhabitable for someone who believes in a democracy, free speech and capitalism.
All proud to be American yet divided by the means in which their families arrived, we no wish to be anywhere else. They have more in common than not and a whole lot better off than the majority of humans on the planet. But at odds nonetheless.
Does the end justify the means or do we condemn the means yet enjoy the spoils the "end" allows us.
