Jaime R. Carrero

The people in the rich world don’t care about the poor world — but why would they? Their lives suck, too. In very real ways. Apart from gentle and wise Europe, the people of the rich world are not really very happy people. They are cruel and careless and selfish ones, like Americans — incapable of empathy, love, grace, kindness. They watch each other’s kids die and shrug…they watch one another perish for lack of healthcare…so why would they care about…the world? They live empty lives, which is why they pile up possessions, to forever try and fill that hole in the soul with status and dominance and superiority. The secret they don’t know is that hole can only ever be filled by caring for the rest of the world, but they can’t do that, because to them vulnerability is weakness, and weakness is death.

The day Americans can understand it — and say it — is the precise, exact day the tide will begin to finally turn. But not until that day.

…rstands as forms of complicity. When jihadis are shooting up your malls and festivals, my friends — while organized political blocs of racial supremacists occupy high office: you are having a fascist collapse.