there’s a book out there titled “dying of whiteness” and it describes how white (mostly poor) americans chose to vote against their own interests (especially for healthcare) rather than see any out-group (especially minorities) get any support.
i think that all americans will be dying of whiteness fiscally rather than admit that china has surpassed the united states economically.
It’s a hard pill to swallow to be sure. Americans are taught that they’re exceptional, and the US is a shining city on the hill that all the world looks up to. Meanwhile, China is presented as some sort of a hellscape with a collapsing economy. I can see why accepting that this is an inversion of the real world is so difficult.
It’s worst than that; we’re taught that China is a dystopian, authoritarian hellhole and I think that our collective “common sense” is going to make us go to extensive, painful, and unreversible lengths to prevent that “hellhole” from becoming the world’s hegemon.
My only prayer is that if this leads to a damn near shitshow collapse that the West Coast will fulfill a break off from the US, the settler state culture of the US is it’s inevitable downfall (i.e. the boomerang of imperialism/fascism).
the settler state culture of the US is it’s inevitable downfall
I agree this is true, but this seed takes centuries to bloom into a collapse since it can (and has) been delayed many times; as evidenced by the native American style extermination that’s happening in Gaza rn.
I fully expect there to be a nothing more than a chapter is some history book on the Gazan version of the trail-of-tears in the next 100 years or so as future Isrealis willfully remain ignorant of the atrocities committed in their name as Americans are in theirs.
there’s a book out there titled “dying of whiteness” and it describes how white (mostly poor) americans chose to vote against their own interests (especially for healthcare) rather than see any out-group (especially minorities) get any support.
i think that all americans will be dying of whiteness fiscally rather than admit that china has surpassed the united states economically.
It’s a hard pill to swallow to be sure. Americans are taught that they’re exceptional, and the US is a shining city on the hill that all the world looks up to. Meanwhile, China is presented as some sort of a hellscape with a collapsing economy. I can see why accepting that this is an inversion of the real world is so difficult.
It’s worst than that; we’re taught that China is a dystopian, authoritarian hellhole and I think that our collective “common sense” is going to make us go to extensive, painful, and unreversible lengths to prevent that “hellhole” from becoming the world’s hegemon.
I agree, it’s all framed as some mythical battle between good and evil like it’s star wars or something.
My only prayer is that if this leads to a damn near shitshow collapse that the West Coast will fulfill a break off from the US, the settler state culture of the US is it’s inevitable downfall (i.e. the boomerang of imperialism/fascism).
I agree this is true, but this seed takes centuries to bloom into a collapse since it can (and has) been delayed many times; as evidenced by the native American style extermination that’s happening in Gaza rn.
I fully expect there to be a nothing more than a chapter is some history book on the Gazan version of the trail-of-tears in the next 100 years or so as future Isrealis willfully remain ignorant of the atrocities committed in their name as Americans are in theirs.