Charlottsville, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Durham, Boston, And Many More To Come

Perry Campbell
Aug 23, 2017 · 6 min read
Mankind’s Personality Disorder

I actually logged on to write about the very topic that Gordie Jackson wrote about here: https://medium.com/hopes-and-dreams-for-our-future/was-it-a-coincidence-that-josephs-coat-was-of-many-colours-766efe257af3, but then my response to him morphed into this screed.

The problem/issue with the central theme in Charlottsville is this: No amount of destruction will bring peace or solitude to anyone. Although the news likes to frame the issue as white supremacists versus minorities, or Fascists versus Anti-Fascists, or Nazis versus Jews, even, that is not the true underlying motivation for most people. In the end, all of the statues will be removed, and there will be no mental nor emotional relief for anyone — the flames will burn a little brighter and the heat will get a little higher. The real issue is that mankind has chosen a destructive path and the consequences of this path are not pretty.

The statues are simply the tip of the spear, much like the issue with Palestine and Israel. Average Palestinians do not wish to launch missiles and average Israelis do not wish to bomb back. Almost everyone wants to live in peace, but a larger Arab world wishes to engage destructively, a larger western world wishes to stab back, and this is the spear tip they choose that has the most passive-aggressive sharpness.

Southerners remain bruised and bitter over the loss of the civil war, and especially over the brutality of reconstruction, our graves remind us often. The vision of handsaws slowly cutting off maimed legs with no anesthesia is still sharp in our minds. The statues were one last jab over this. And now, the removal of the statues is yet another jab back, by a people who have their own memories of brutality seared painfully into their minds. There is no constructive outcome with the approach that has been adopted by all involved, and media outlets are more than happy to broadcast the strife, because it increases their viewership, which turns into wealth for them. In the trenches, nothing but increased heartache, sadness, and bruised feelings are bestowed. And, as always, there will be an equally sharp stab back for this. There always is a reaction, it seems. The societal defect that creates this heightened strife lies in the amount of money that can be earned by fanning flames.

Evidence that this is true is found in related events. Already, statues of Christopher Columbus, Joan of Arc, and Father Junipero Serra have been defaced, and calls to blow up Mount Rushmore and tear down The White House have been proposed. These are representations not of slavery, or of the civil war, but of the nation as a whole. The frustrations being voiced by this more widespread destruction is the anger of the modern day — that society grinds up certain people and leaves them helpless and hurt. They, in turn, lash out. Statues refuse to defend themselves, and so, are easy targets. Retribution is relatively easy as well, and escalatingly more painful for the targeted class — simply increase trade with China and other low-income nations, increase automation, increase immigration, and further remove the jobs that African Americans once had, thrusting them down even lower into helplessness, and snicker as drugs scourge them even harder.

Never mind how much this hurts the entire society as a whole, or that there will be a response.

No, nothing positive can come from any of this. There is no introspection, only judgement of others. This is why peace is not at hand in the events going on here. Quite the opposite. A country that was once quite a bit at peace with itself has decided to engage in self-battle. America once prided itself in it’s melting-pot model for immigration. I should point out that the melting pot model is very much the opposite of Europe’s multiculturalism model. The melting pot model requires assimilation, new cultures come in and are absorbed into the greater one, the best traits of the external culture is adopted by the greater society, the worst traits are discarded, and a consistent, even, improved society results. In multiculturalism, we expect new cultures to come in and remain as they were. The melting pot model results in a stronger more robust society. Multiculturalism results, always, in genocide. The reader can doubt me on this matter, but a quick survey of countries across the globe will prove this out. One simply needs to understand the subtle differences between multiculturalism and melting pots, and it immediately becomes obvious.

Somehow, during the course of the 1960’s and beyond, African Americans embraced a unique culture. This arrested the melting pot factors that were drawing them ever deeper into main-steam American culture with regards to their population, and immediately introduced multiculturalism to their society within America. Isolation began and grew, and grows to this day. A separation is happening. My own opinion is that their eventual outcome is about as good as that of a Christian under an ISIS Caliphate, unless a societal sea change can somehow be implemented. I would also point out that there are stark differences in the countryside versus the city — the city is a much more brutal place as far as attitudes go. You find these confrontations in cities, never in the country. This is further evidence that the strife is artificial, man-made, fabricated out of nothingness. Although it should be obvious that the nothingness that it is fabricated from is actually the usual suspects that the Bible warns us about — hate, envy, greed, coveting, and loathing.

All of these flames of evil are fanned because the cameras immediately turn to whoever can scream the nastiest of names. Instant momentary fame for the screamer and a few more eyeballs glued to the nightly news.

Real change is coming, but it is not what you think it is and it is not necessarily without pain. Look at history for your prophesy. As Charlie Munger once said, history may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. This utterance is not even slightly at odds with Ecclesiastes 1:9. Think about that.

Once the reader lets all of this sink in, he can see the truth. Starkly, the truth lies in Robert E. Lee. He was against the civil war, against secession, against slavery, and against statues, but he was loyal to his home state. The reality is that we never should have had slavery, Jim Crow, and Dred Scott. The slippery slope was how most of the white men got here in the first place, through indentured servitude, a watered-down version of chattel slavery. We never should have imported slaves, fought the civil war, built statues, and we never should have allowed the federal union to become so overpowering that there became a need to secede. Secreted down deep beneath the layers of history so deep that few people even have heard of it, and many refuse to believe it, is a most sour note — the first legally recognized chattel slave in the USA was a black man owned by… another black man. Few things are as they appear on the surface.

Our series of mistakes layered upon earlier mistakes are building up more and more. The solution we have today is to make even more mistakes and somehow hope that history will not repeat itself. Ecclesiastes was written at least 2000 years ago about a wise man named Solomon, who referred to himself as “son of David, King of Jerusalem”. A wise man ponders his own history and his own creation, before pondering the decisions of today. In this way, he ceases making mistakes. We don’t do that today, in spite of Ecclesiastes, because, well, you know, Ecclesiastes. Our history is rhyming today, as it has for 5000 years, and none of us are learning a damned thing.

If anyone, ANYONE, has read this tome and felt justified or righteous in the matter at hand, then I say unto you, you just didn’t get the message, my friend, and you probably never will. The only feelings you should be having at this point are sorrow and distress and sadness. The only true solution that will come to us comes from logic and emotionless calculation, but with true agape rolled up into it.

Peace be unto you.

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