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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: It's Gross To Live Under The US Empire And Spend Your Time Criticizing Other Governments
Published: 2022-08-27
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb_vQ7dhTeo
Title: It's Gross To Live Under The US Empire And Spend Your Time Criticizing Other Governments
Published: 2022-08-27
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb_vQ7dhTeo
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it's gross to live under the US empire and spend your time criticizing other governments the other day in Australian journalist was giving me a hard time for not criticizing Russia and China the way I go after the U. S. empire calling the morally bankrupt for not criticizing all governments equally he said the ethical thing to do would be to criticize the US but also criticized the2/15
government's the U. S. doesn't like for balance I had a look at this fellow's work online and did indeed see articles sharply criticizing China and Russia as well as much weaker governments like Sri Lanka the Philippines and the Taliban but I guess what government I didn't see in his cross hairs this to me is the worst kind of moral cowardice to live in Australia affectively a3/15
member state of the U. S. empire and yet spend your time criticizing far weaker and far less destructive governments is like living in a Nazi occupied territory during World War two and spending your time shaking your fist at Brazil it's like tut tutting judgmental E. when you hear your neighbor raised her voice at her kids even as you yourself are busy murdering your entire family with4/15
an axe as I learn more and more about global power dynamics and interact with more and more people around the world responding to the things I have to say I find myself growing more and more disdainful of those who live directly under the thumb of the U. S. empire and yet spend their time criticizing on absorbing governments like Russia and China it's literally the most pathetic5/15
sniveling power serving position anyone can possibly take at this point in history the US empire is indisputably the most murderous and destructive power structure on the world stage today no other power has spent the twenty first century killing people by the millions in wars of aggression no other power is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and working continuously to destroy any government which disobeys6/15
it no other power is starving entire populations with economic sanctions military blockades and brazen theft no other power has been interfering in foreign elections anywhere near as often no other power is terrorizing populations around the world with wars covert ops drone strikes proxy conflicts and staged coups and uprisings no other power is using its military economic diplomatic and media dominance to bully the world into serving7/15
its interests the U. S. exports most of its tyranny outside its own borders though certainly not all of it but it is never the less plainly the most tyrannical regime on earth everyone in the world should focus their scrutiny and criticism on the most powerful and destructive power structure in the world because that is the sane and normal thing to do but those who live in8/15
the US or its imperial member states have a special obligation to do so because focusing on far less powerful and far less evil governments when you live under the umbrella of the U. S. centralized empire is gross even if you don't buy the argument that those who live under the U. S. empire have a special obligation to focus their criticisms on that power structure at the9/15
very least you should make your criticisms proportionate to the destructiveness and because the U. S. is by far the most destructive power on earth you should be criticizing it far more often but it's worth taking time to do some honest self examination on why you feel the need to even give proportionate criticism to empire targeted governments like Russia and China in a society where every single10/15
one of the most powerful media and government institutions already criticized those governments constantly while ignoring the crimes of the empire it's worth examining why you feel the need to lend your voice to a message that is already being amplified as loudly as any message could possibly be amplified when criticisms of the empire are so profoundly neglected in the English speaking world and questioning whether lending your11/15
energy to those propaganda campaigns would have any desirable effect at all if you examine your urge to join the mainstream shrieking about U. S. targeted governments you will probably find if you are honest with yourself that you've been marinating in pro U. S. propaganda your entire life and that has warped your expectations of normal criticism we're so accustomed to seeing the misdeeds of US targeted governments12/15
grossly over emphasized an exaggerated while seeing US misdeeds grossly under emphasized and ignored that it sets the bar for expectations of what normal criticism should look like this distortion effect makes an appropriate level of aggressive criticism of the U. S. empire look inappropriate and disproportionate we've been trained in such a way that a normal amount of emphasis on the evils of US imperialism looks freakish and13/15
suspicious in reality it is not freakish and suspicious when someone focuses their criticisms on the world's most powerful and destructive government it's freakish and suspicious that that isn't the norm it's a lot easier to criticize empire targeted governments than the empire itself because everyone we're surrounded by has been consuming empire propaganda all their lives and will receive pushback from them when we say things that cause14/15
them to experience cognitive dissonance and this is a major reason so many westerners opt for the path of least resistance rather than shining the spotlight of truth where the real monsters are but that's countess it's boot licking it's pathetic don't facilitate the propaganda campaigns of your rulers while failing to criticize the crimes of those rulers just because it's easier than putting your energy where it belongs