This text is from my final ebook, Searching for Reality in a Nation of Lies.(Nov., 2020). Though it was written in 2018, it nonetheless appears acceptable on this anniversary of the evil U.S. bombing of Hiroshima.
“Ahab is endlessly Ahab, man. This complete act’s immutably decreed. ‘Twas rehearsed by thee and me billion years earlier than this ocean rolled. Idiot! I’m the Fates’ lieutenant; I act beneath orders.”
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick
“The best evil just isn’t now completed in these sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens liked to color…However it’s conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted places of work, by quiet males with white collars and reduce fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who don’t want to lift their voice.”
– C. S. Lewis, creator’s preface, 1962, The Screwtape Letters
American historical past can solely precisely be described because the story of demonic possession, nevertheless you select to grasp that phrase. Perhaps radical “evil” will suffice. However proper from the beginning the American colonizers had been concerned in large killing as a result of they thought of themselves divinely blessed and guided, a selected folks whose mission would come to be known as “manifest future.” Nothing stood in the best way of this divine calling, which concerned the necessity to enslave and kill tens of millions and tens of millions of harmless those who continues right down to as we speak. “Others” have all the time been expendable since they’ve stood in the best way of the imperial march ordained by the American god. This contains all of the wars waged primarily based on lies and false flag operations. It’s not a secret, though most People, in the event that they realize it, want to see it as a collection of aberrations carried out by “dangerous apples.” Or one thing from the previous.
Our greatest writers and prophets have informed us the reality: Thoreau, Twain, William James, MLK, Fr. Daniel Berrigan, et al.: we’re a nation of killers of the harmless. We’re conscienceless. We’re brutal. We’re within the grip of evil forces.
The English author D. H. Lawrence mentioned it completely in 1923, “The American soul is tough, isolate, stoic and a killer. It has by no means but melted.” It nonetheless hasn’t.
When on August 6 and 9, 1945 the US killed 200-300 thousand harmless Japanese civilians with atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they did so deliberately. It was an act of sinister state terrorism, unprecedented by the character of the weapons however not by the slaughter. The American terror bombings of Japanese cities that preceded the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – led by the notorious Main Common Curtis LeMay – had been additionally deliberately geared toward Japanese civilians and killed lots of of hundreds of them.
Is there an American artist’s portray of Tokyo destroyed by the firebombing to go subsequent to Picasso’s Guernica, the place estimates of the useless vary between 800 and 1,600? In Tokyo alone greater than 100,000 Japanese civilians had been burnt to demise by cluster bombs of napalm. All this killing was intentional. I repeat: Intentional. Is that not radical evil? Demonic? Solely 5 Japanese cities had been spared such bombing.
The atomic bombings had been an intentional holocaust, to not finish the battle, because the historic document amply demonstrates, however to ship a message to the Soviet Union that we may do to them what we did to the residents of Japan. President Truman made sure that the Japanese willingness to give up in Could 1945 was made unacceptable as a result of he and his Secretary-of-State James Byrnes needed to make use of the atomic bombs – “as shortly as attainable to ‘present outcomes’” in Byrnes’ phrases – to ship a message to the Soviet Union. So “the Good Battle” was ended within the Pacific with the “good guys” killing lots of of thousand Japanese civilians to make a degree to the “dangerous guys,” who’ve been demonized ever since. Russia phobia is nothing new.
Devil all the time wears the opposite’s face.
Many Child Boomers wish to say they grew up with the bomb. They’re fortunate. They grew up. They acquired be scared. They acquired to cover beneath their desks and wax nostalgic about it. Do you bear in mind canine tags? These Fifties and Sixties? The scary motion pictures?
The kids of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who died beneath our bombs on August 6 and 9, 1945 didn’t get to develop up. They couldn’t cover. They simply went beneath. To be correct: we put them beneath. Or they had been left to smolder for many years in ache after which die. However that it was essential to save lots of American lives is the lie. It’s all the time about American lives, as if the house owners of the nation truly cared about them. However to tender hearts and harmless minds, it’s a magic incantation. Poor us!
Fats Man, Little Boy – how the phrases echo down the years to the now fats People who grew up within the Fifties and who suppose like little girls and boys about their nation’s demonic nature. Innocence – it’s fantastic! We’re completely different now. “We’re nice as a result of we’re good,” that’s what Hillary Clinton informed us. The Libyans can attest to that. We’re distinctive, particular. The following election will show we will defeat Mr. Pumpkin Head and restore America to its “core values.”
Maybe you suppose I’m cynical. However understanding true evil just isn’t baby’s play. It appears past the grasp of most People who want their illusions. Evil is actual. There’s merely no strategy to perceive the savage nature of American historical past with out seeing its demonic nature. How else can we redeem ourselves at this late date, possessed as we’re by delusions of our personal God-blessed goodness?
However common People play at innocence. They excite themselves on the thought that with the following election the nation will likely be “restored” to the precise course. After all there by no means was a proper course, except may makes proper, which has all the time been the best way of America’s rulers. In the present day Trump is seen by so many as an aberration. He’s removed from it. He’s straight out of a Twain brief story. He’s Vaudeville. He’s Melville’s confidence man. He’s us. Did it ever happen to those that are fixated on him that if those that personal and run the nation needed him gone, he’d be gone instantly? He can tweet and tweet idiotically, endlessly ship out messages that he’ll contradict the following day, however so long as he protects the super-rich, accepts Israel’s management of him, and permits the CIA-military-industrial advanced to do its world-wide killing and looting of the treasury, he will likely be allowed to entertain and excite the general public – to get them labored up in a lather in pseudo-debates. And to make this extra entertaining, he will likely be opposed by the “sane” Democratic opposition, whose intentions are as benign as an murderer’s smile.
Look again so far as you possibly can to previous U.S. presidents, the figureheads who “act beneath orders” (whose orders?), as did Ahab in his lust to kill the “evil” nice white whale, and what do you see? You see servile killers within the grip of a sinister energy. You see hyenas with polished faces. You see pasteboard masks. On the one event when considered one of these presidents dared to comply with his conscience and rejected the satan’s pact that’s the presidency’s killer-in-chief position, he – JFK – had his brains blown out in public view. An evil empire thrives on shedding blood, and it enforces its will by means of demonic messages. Resist and there will likely be blood on the streets, blood on the tracks, blood in your face.
Regardless of this, President Kennedy’s witness, his flip from chilly warrior to an apostle of peace, stays to encourage a ray of hope in these darkish days. As recounted by James Douglass in his masterful JFK and the Unspeakable, Kennedy agreed to a gathering in Could 1962 with a gaggle of Quakers who had been demonstrating outdoors the Whereas Home for whole disarmament. They urged him to maneuver in that course. Kennedy was sympathetic to their place. He mentioned he wished it had been straightforward to take action from the highest down, however that he was being pressured by the Pentagon and others to by no means do this, though he had given a speech urging “a peace race” along with the Soviet Union. He informed the Quakers it must come from beneath. In keeping with the Quakers, JFK listened intently to their factors, and earlier than they left mentioned with a smile, “You imagine in redemption don’t you?” Quickly Kennedy was shaken to his core by the Cuban missile disaster when the world teetered on the point of extinction and his insane army and “intelligence” advisers urged him to wage a nuclear battle. Not lengthy after, he took a pointy top-down flip towards peace regardless of their fierce opposition, a flip so dramatic over the following yr that it led to his martyrdom. And he knew it will. He knew it will.
So hope just isn’t all misplaced. There are nice souls like JFK to encourage us. Their examples flash right here and there. However to even start to hope to vary the longer term, a confrontation with our demonic previous (and current) is first essential, a descent into the darkish reality that’s terrifying in its implications. False innocence have to be deserted. Carl Jung, in “On the Psychology of the Unconscious,” addressed this with the phrases:
It’s a scary thought that man additionally has a shadow facet to him, consisting not simply of little weaknesses – and foibles, however of a positively demonic dynamism. The person seldom is aware of something of this; to him, as a person, it’s unimaginable that he ought to ever in any circumstances transcend himself. However let these innocent creatures type a mass, and there emerges a raging monster; and every particular person is just one tiny cell within the monster’s physique, in order that for higher or worse he should accompany it on its bloody rampages and even help it to the utmost. Having a darkish suspicion of those grim potentialities, man turns a blind eye to the shadow-side of human nature. Blindly he strives towards the salutary dogma of unique sin, which is but so prodigiously true. Sure, he even hesitates to confess the battle of which he’s so painfully conscious.
How can one describe males who would deliberately slaughter so many harmless folks? American historical past is rife with such examples as much as the current day. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and so forth. – the record may be very lengthy. Savage wars carried out by women and men who personal and run the nation, and who attempt to purchase the souls of standard folks to affix them of their pact with the satan, to acquiesce to their ongoing depraved deeds. Such monstrous evil was by no means extra evident than on August 6 and 9, 1945.
Except we enter into deep contemplation of the evil that was launched into the world with these bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we’re misplaced in a dwelling hell with out escape. And we pays. Nemesis all the time calls for retribution. We’ve step by step been accepting rule by these for whom the killing of innocents is baby’s play, and now we have been masquerading as harmless and good kids for whom the reality is an excessive amount of to bear. “Certainly, the most secure street to Hell is the gradual one,” Screwtape, the satan, tells his nephew, Wormwood, a satan in coaching, “the light slope, mushy underfoot, with out sudden turnings, with out milestones, with out signposts.” That’s the street we’ve been touring.
The projection of evil onto others works solely so lengthy. We should reclaim our shadows and withdraw our projections. Solely the destiny of the world will depend on
