The Effects of a Wavering Western Hegemony
Within the last century…
The Western World’s (Europe and the United States) relationship with the rest of the world could be summarized as the West’s attempt to halt the transition of power of this ruling caste while upholding historical ethnocentric hierarchy domestically and internationally. The following essay will attempt to briefly explain and assess the sources of some commonly known atrocities, injustices, and their effects and causes throughout the world.
More specifically, this essay will focus on the causes of a new cold war between Sino-Russia and the Western World, persistent Jihadist terrorism, and new waves of authoritarian, racist, and minority-centered unrest in the United States. Some of the atrocities and injustices this paper will explore centers on:
(1) The transition of power from the traditional hegemony of the Western world domestically and internationally;
(2) Their attempts of ceasing the transition against oppositional forces facilitating the transition;
(3) The ordered affects resulting from the transition of power and the force opposing change.
Domestically, we’ve seen a great exodus of democratic values in the face of ethnic caste class struggles in the Western World. The struggles were ceaseless throughout history, but some of the more significant and well-known attempts to further suppress the lower castes and socioeconomic position of groups and individuals (in the form of governmental subterfuge) include: manipulation, and intelligence agencies coercing and dividing minorities and minority leadership through deliberate sabotage echoing colonial conquest strategies.
In 1996, San Jose Mercury news published the first series of documents involving the CIA, minority gangs and leadership, and the Nicaraguan Contra Army. More interestingly, the story of the “trifecta” (which consisted of the Fuerza Democratica Nicaraguense, a Contra cell known for cocaine distribution involvement, and the Central Intelligence Agency) consisted of the Contra cells selling cocaine to a crack trafficker in the United States while being protected and facilitated financially by the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Controversy”, 2021), and provided evidence of attempts to further suppress the lower castes and socioeconomic position of groups and individuals. Today, there is little to prevent the continued facilitation of drug trafficking to minority communities due to organizations that benefit.
While the Federal government is the lone barrier to legalization of various recreational substances, the pharmaceutical industry is largest lobbyist faction in the US. In fact, according to an observational study published on JAMA Internal Medicine, “publicly available data on campaign contributions and lobbying in the US from 1999 to 2018, found that the pharmaceutical and health product industry spent $4.7 billion, an average of $233 million per year, on lobbying the US federal government; $414 million on contributions to presidential and congressional electoral candidates, national party committees, and outside spending groups; and $877 million on contributions to state candidates and committees.” (Wouters, 2020)
We can assess that this is likely to contribute to a conflict of interest at the localized and individualized levels when there are lobbyists to sway the opinion of critical legislation. Drug illegalization could maximize the opportunities for the FDA and large pharmaceutical corporations to coordinate a monopoly through the process of federal approval and reduce the availability of drugs to choose for medicinal purposes; as well as preventing research that could undermine established methods that:
- Financially benefits the pharmaceutical industry
- Give existential cause and funding to government agencies such as the DEA
- Give predictive stability to the illegal-drug producing countries,
- Give probable cause to confine minorities that define the private prison industry.
Relating to that last point — of confining minorities, and referencing activities of the CIA again; why would the CIA facilitate drugs trafficking to black communities in the United States? We can assess it is similar to the same reason why for the Black Wall Street massacre in Tulsa, or the illegality of black-market thriving contraband which overwhelmingly affects minority neighborhoods, incentivized non-violent drug conviction (Lewis, 1996), red-lining, domestic brain drains of the economically impoverished, attempted and possibly successful coercion and assassination of black leadership (Gage, 2014), and why Hispanic immigration is so violently and inhumanely regulated.
Caste hegemony is often expressed with government intervention. However, this is also conscious and sub-conscious effort that is crowd-funded and supported by people whose entitled ways of life are threatened to come to an end — as a dog expecting treats, the masses of privilege learned to expect positive reinforcement, nudges, and facilitation toward their success. To find the crux of where, we must ask ourselves at what point does anyone care about sexuality, women in power, minorities in power, or diversity — problems outside of their life that are not pertinent to them in anyway?
Another way to ask this question,
What is the difference between the Caliphate resurgence of ISIS in the 2010s versus the intellectual, relatively speaking — universally tolerating and tolerable Abbasid, Rashidun, and Umayyad Caliphate of the Middle Ages?
Internationally, The West’s multiple blunders in managing the resulting fallout after resolving a direct military conflict directly led to the wide antagonism of Western Culture and fumed the flames of belligerence and revanchist ideology across the world.
Within the Middle East, whether through intention of repeating the British colonial strategy of conquer and divide or through blatant ignorance, the Western Victors over the Ottoman Empire in 1922 seemed to coincide closely with the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1927 — the grandfather of all modern Islamic Terrorism. The Ottoman Empire has been synonymous with Muslim identity in the Middle East for at least six centuries (McDonald & Moore, 2013). Then suddenly their national, regional, religious, and ethnic identities changed almost instantaneously from not only the Ottoman Empire — but also the Caliphate that held stability in the Middle East since the Middle Ages to ill-defined borders.
This could be compared to the sort of effects of what would happen after the complete occupation and disintegration of the United States — their ideals of freedom, democracy, the identity with power and prestige all gone from the people — with no replacement. They will always be a loose amalgamation of what once was, with their sense of identity fragmented, but aligned.
Couple the Middle East with antagonism directed from the Chinese world, the more contemporarily prominent peoples who dominated their sphere of influence with their native ideals and morals for millennia only their philosophies to be belittled, drugs to be directly imported to, and systematically broken to be ripe for Western Colonialism.
The Western World and its internal hegemonies are now experiencing the effects of irresponsibly insulting the human will across a multitude of domains through Chinese neo-colonialism, civil rights activism, and sympathist spurs of decentralized information and power. Being attacked from the inside and out, we can observe the hegemonic responses. Some include: Brexit (these exits are some of the rawest form of caste defense — a bulwark of isolation to impede international justice), the rise of authoritarianism, revanchist extremism and populism (The Editors, 2020); outright belligerence and regime change in internationally disenfranchised communities, like the Arab Spring; as well as facilitation of black market economies to grant casus belli (reason for war) domestically and internationally. It is important to consider this concept of casus-belli in connection with intelligence agencies’ influencing black communities in the United States.
Consequently, people in society are being used as objects of propaganda and tools to facilitate hegemonic rule — of which we are becoming more aware over time. Karl Marx’s prediction of the lower classes resolving the class struggle with revolution didn’t take into consideration the versatility and craftiness of technological progress and policy writing. Considering the ability and reach of black operations implemented by intelligence agencies, we could only assume all malicious actions on otherwise rational policy proposals and socio-economic mobility are directly or second or third order effects of sophisticated social experiments of one or more powers and their decentralized accommodations attempting to solidify their standings in the world at the expense of all others.
References:
CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Controversy. (2021). Retrieved 16 April 2021, from https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9712/ch01p1.htm
Lewis, A. (1996). Baltimore Sun — A CIA plot against black America? Crack sale charges may not be just a case of paranoia www.baltimoresun.com/neWews/bs-xpm-1996-09-15-1996259001-story.html
McDonald, S., & Moore, S. (2013). Communicating Identity in the Ottoman Empire and Some Implications for Contemporary States. Retrieved 16 April 2021, from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15456870.2015.1090439?journalCode=hajc20
The Editors. (2020). What’s Driving the Rise of Authoritarianism and Populism in Europe and Beyond?. Retrieved 16 April 2021, from https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/insights/27842/the-rise-of-authoritarianism-and-populism-europe-and-beyond
Gage, B. (2014). What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals (Published 2014). Retrieved 16 April 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html
Wouters, O., 2020. Lobbying Expenditures and Campaign Contributions by the Pharmaceutical and Health Product Industry in the United States, 1999–2018. [online] jamanetwork.com. Available at: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2762509
