Tornado of Trauma

As Chalmers teaches, it's always the backlash. The CIA trains a killer in Afghanistan and it comes back to haunt. The US trained killers in Iraq and now we have all these damaged souls wandering our streets. Now imagine the generation of Israeli soldiers that just committed a horrific genocide ( just following orders) and the citizens who watched and enabled it. What kind of monsters will now be roaming their streets? Watch the suicide rate for clues. Caught in the vortex of violence and hate, they are sucked downward into the maw and they will have children who will carry the inherited burden of trauma and committ their own atrocities. And on it goes. Some theorize the possibility of collective trauma, manifesting at a national level, and it would be a logical answer for why American culture is all about diverting thought away from introspection. All those dead Indigenous people and all those slaves and all those workers ground up in Capital's maw. Is that how we explain neo-fascism? This familiar theme seems to re-surface whenever people feel unmoored. There is always blood and soil to fall back on. And mindless entertainment. The new National Security Strategy doc released by the Trump Administration is full of language about "civilization", a long-time meme for imperialists looking to save the white race from replacement. The document points to Europe's dissolution as the Gates of Vienna are breached by the brown, non-Christian hordes. It has always been the white man's burden to bring civilization to the inferior races but that doesn't mean they can come streaming into our countries for God's sake! They'll start changing our national culture with their wierd food and music and shit.Your daughter will start wanting to wear a burqa! The fact that it is the emissions from our industrialization which is forcing them to migrate only suggests one solution: start drone striking migrant boats, same as they are doing to the so-called drug boats in the Caribbean. Because we sure as hell aren't going to stop emissions. And everybody knows our biggest problem is overpopulation. Kind of a win- win! What the defense strategy document does is state the obvious: it's all about the money. It has always been written by and for big Capital but in the past they would try to give it some ideological/ intellectual sheen. No longer. They now concede that China has cleaned their clock in most of the globe so they will now focus on our old whipping boy, Latin America. Plenty of oil and gas and minerals to be had close to home. As for domestic policy: an AI in every pot! What can go wrong?