Primitivization of America or How to Kill a Queen

Primitivization- reducing something to a primitive state or regressing to an immature state.

If we remain on this tragic, cowardly path, in just six years and eight months, the United States of America will stop to exist as a unified political entity. Today, it may seem unbelievable, but in under seven years after this article was published, even those of us who deeply love this country will perceive its downfall not as a tragedy, but as a necessity, offering the opportunity for a new beginning.

If we are fortunate, our fragile coexistence will end peacefully.

If not, this agony will end in an epic bloodshed unseen in modern history.

I know this is not what you want to hear right now.

However, if most political elites are aware of this emerging reality, you should be too.

Today, over 43 million Americans live in poverty; 15 million are children.

Some 56% of Americans cannot cover unexpected 1,000 dollars in emergency bills.

We have 600,000 homeless people.

As of 2020, 37 million Americans aged 12 years and older are illegal drug users. A staggering 110,236 people died of an overdose last year.

In 2021 48, 830 people died from gun-related injuries.

Over 40% of Americans expect a civil war in the next ten years.

We see these statistics on social media more often than we want. Some of us trust them, and some of us do not. But even those reluctant to trust the media must believe their eyes.

We can see signs of decay everywhere.

In our schools, children are killed daily.

Our infrastructure is falling apart.

A dozen individuals have accumulated tremendous wealth while most Americans struggle to survive.

Our business and political elites are entangled in numerous criminal affairs.

Some of them steal our money. Some of them molest our children.

All of them are incapable of solving the countless problems that this country is facing.

Hate crimes are a common occurrence in big cities and all around us.

The senseless shootings shatter lives almost every day.

We live in a rapidly changing, toxic world.

Even the most naïve of us realize this now.

Like most Americans, you are tired, confused, bitter, and disappointed. You are angry, sad, confused, and hopeless. You are feeling both frustrated and vengeful.

Although you are afraid to admit it, you are terrified of what you know is coming.

And you should be.

I will tell you why.

But before anything else, let us begin this journey with a clarification.

Addressing emotionally charged issues, especially ones that impact a significant number of individuals, is always a challenging and unrewarding task. Writers do not want to harm, offend, or alienate their readers. Like most, we crave to belong, to be affirmed, included, and admired. We aspire to be recognized and respected.

To accomplish this, most of us feel compelled to adopt a shielded and innocuous literary approach, to stay within the norms and boundaries of acceptable discourse. We prefer to write about personal, political, or social issues that already have an established narrative in our cultural environment. While we may have conflicting views on certain theories, ideas, or political programs, it is reassuring to know that millions of others share our perspectives.

As Americans fancy to say, it’s better to be safe than sorry.

Indeed, who wants to venture into the dangerous, lonely, uncharted realms of the ultimate political and historical truth?

And the consequences that come with that decision.

Only a few.

And that is the reason why we live in these desperate, hopeless times.

We are cowards.

We prefer to ignore injustice.

We choose to stay silent in order to stay safe.

Unfortunately, refraining from addressing specific issues, challenges, or troubles does not lead to their eradication.

Problems do not just go away.

They frequently return to torment us, to break us apart.

Some of those ghosts are finally catching up with us.

More will arrive soon.

They will bring the sobering truth, and the cathartic years infused with suffering and hardships. They will herald the times of sorrow — the era of despair.

And we will finally have to write and discuss things we want to forget.

Regardless of how painful it is for all of us.

Writers or readers.

Some of us will have to take that thankless responsibility and document issues that have devastated this country. Some will have to record and chronicle the dark, tragic descent of the greatest nation in the world’s history.

Or our glorious rebirth.

The time will tell.

Whatever happens, we must set the narrative straight for future generations.

On behalf of those of us who chose this difficult path, I offer a sincere apology.

We will hurt your feelings and make you angry, afraid, and miserable.

You will hate us.

You will reject or embrace the truth. Our words might make you resentful, or they might save your life.

You might hate the messengers or respect our sacrifice.

Whatever you decide, the choice is yours.

And that alone is already something.

These writings are not about politics, religion, class, or race; these words are about the survival of the country.

Our country.

Because in the end, when we ultimately face the truth, the brutal awakening that we could have evaded, we will realize that it was not Democrats or Republicans, conservatives, or liberals, blacks, or whites, Donald or Nancy, terrorists, Russians, Chinese, illegal immigrants, white supremacists, Antifa, or any of the other usual suspects that destroyed our country.

We were overpowered by the forces you will never see in mainstream news, concepts that lurk on the edges of the academic literature, dark social undercurrents that the media is afraid to discuss, and injustices visible to all of us but somehow neglected or normalized.

We were overwhelmed by our failure to recognize the fundamental problems that have permanently damaged our social structure.

The fact is, there are social and cultural diseases that kill countries and rip societies apart. They instigate lethal cultural aberrations and anomalies that suffocate nations, and occasionally, even entire civilizations, in what, from a historical perspective, is a brief span of time. The unsettling truth is that our current predicament is the consequence of our failure to address the ethical and structural changes that occurred in the USA at the turn of the century.

Today, we are paying the ultimate cost of our stupidity.

In the past three years, Americans have experienced the reality of third-world countries and the complete paralysis of society that was previously unimaginable. It was not a Coronavirus pandemic that shattered our lives. It was what it exposed.

The pandemic revealed a disgustingly abysmal condition of government and emergency services, flawed administration, corrupt local authorities, and, more than anything else, the incompetence of elites.

It showed the world how fragile the United States of America is.

Let us remember what we want to forget.

We witnessed millions of people losing their jobs and begging for help while dysfunctional federal and state bureaucracies struggled to deliver desperately needed relief. Facebook pages became windows into the personal hells of average Americans, and “GoFundMe” became a lifesaving tool for many desperate for food and utility funds.

The stimulus payments failed to reach millions of qualified citizens. The state’s decades-old unemployment systems built on aging software left hundreds of thousands waiting to receive lifesaving aid.

Without emergency plans, the government agencies ceased working, creating hardships for those who depended on them.

Thousands of emergency and essential workers had to work without basic PPE, risking their lives. Millions of people died, millions lost their jobs, and thousands of businesses closed and never opened again.

Consequently, unbearable social and economic conditions catalyzed unprecedented racial discord and disunity. The death of George Floyd became a sparkle that set the country on fire. The wave of violence engulfed our country from California to New York, from Minneapolis to the Texas coast. Millions of people flooded the streets of burning cities; millions who were frustrated with the country ravaged by the social and economic crisis, tired of incompetent politicians and discontented society; millions who were disillusioned with the system without political alternatives.

The pandemic showed us how much we hate each other.

The paroxysmal, bizarre Trump presidency culminated in a Monty Python-esque crescendo with the storming of the Capitol building on January 6th, 2021. As the United States and the rest of the world watched in dismay, the motley crew of Trump supporters attempted to overthrow the government and change the outcome of the elections. Although ill-prepared and absurdly farcical, this attempt signified the final blow to civility and common sense in United States politics.

When the new Biden administration launched numerous recovery programs, most Americans believed things were returning to normal. Regrettably, it did not take long for us to realize that nothing had changed. The country remained hopelessly divided, the federal and state administrations still unreliable and debilitated, and the cultural and racial war in the media intensified.

Even the most optimistic among us realize now that our problems cannot be solved quickly.

Not this time.

Americans were stunned when twenty years of incompetence, corruption, and deceit finally exploded into an unavoidable disaster, and the scam called the war in Afghanistan ended.

So while we watched the tragedy of Afghan people unfold on our screens, the scenes of enormous pain, misery, and degradation, this time their suffering surprisingly familiar to us, many of us wondered, could this be some uncanny omen?

Can this happen to us too?

Has Afghanistan just buried another empire?

The tragic death of American soldiers killed in the cowardly ISIS terrorist attack partially answers that question.

As time passed, we experienced our society’s political and cultural deterioration, evident in every aspect of our lives through numerous criminal affairs that involved the most influential members of political and business elites, constant racial and cultural tension, media wars, fentanyl epidemic, and unprecedented rise in criminal activity all over the nation.

While you read this, you probably subconsciously deal with the psychological aftermath of the bloody shootings that target the most vulnerable in our society. As of October 26th, at least 35,275 people have died from gun violence in the U.S. this year — which is an average of almost 118 deaths each day. These numbers vividly illustrate how troubled our country is. Because by now, regardless of which end of the political spectrum you favor, you must acknowledge one simple fact:

America is killing itself.

Yet, we were the unquestioned world leaders at the beginning of this century. Our governance system was far superior to any other. Our society was flawless; our economy was the largest globally, our culture and science were unrivaled, and our military was the mightiest in the world.

We were admired, respected, and envied.

Then something unexpected happened, and

just twenty years later, we were a shell of our former selves.

What went wrong with us?

No other first-world country has deteriorated as rapidly or severely as the United States of America.

Why has not there ever been an open and honest discussion in the media about the true causes of our apparent rapid decline?

In the past twenty years, despite the evident crisis that has ravaged our society, no politician, political analyst, historian, or media personality ever emphasized the apparent reasons that triggered this tragedy.

Those same reasons buried every empire or a great nation in the past two thousand years.

Why are we terrified of facing the truth?

Why have we adopted cultural and social traits characteristic of the world’s poorest and most corrupt countries?

Why did that happen?

How?

Let me tell you.

While we enjoyed the golden nineties, dealing with the first-world country problems, the real monsters sneaked into our lives. These were the problems you will not read about, the ideas that linger on the periphery of scholarly literature, and the hidden societal undercurrents that the media is unwilling to discuss. The injustices that are obvious to everyone yet are nonetheless ignored or normalized. We were terrified of standing against those adversaries because we did not want to admit that our society had transformed. We decided to ignore the sickness that was killing us.

So, when the terrorists attacked, living standards started deteriorating, millions of jobs went over the sea, the opioid epidemic ravaged the country, and when the cultural war escalated to civil conflict, our establishment pretended nothing happened.

That show must go on.

During the last two decades, our “leaders” have been engulfed in petty ideological squabbles and blame games while aggressively pushing liberal or conservative viewpoints on the already exhausted nation.

Conveniently, they decided to deal with the consequences instead of the causes of this tragedy, terrified of what they might expose.

That is why you will not find the truth in today’s media.

The reality is that any policy enacted by Republicans or Democrats, even if it is genuinely created to help the people of America, will not work.

Every effort to save our society will undeniably fail.

Until we confront two significant issues that are killing our country.

Until we are brave enough to ask why is this happening to us.

What do we need to do?

This series of articles will answer those questions.

They will reveal the heartbreaking tale of the downfall of our country and its grotesque metamorphosis. They will tell a story about betrayal, millions of destroyed lives, uncertainty, and the fear that ruined us.

More than anything else, it will be the first disclosure of the actual reasons for the decline and upcoming collapse of the United States of America.

These articles are the product of decades-long research and a new type of political analysis infused with a mix of domestic and foreign intelligence.

They will offer you the truths you might not like.

But they might save your life in the chaotic times ahead of us.

This book is not a judgment. It serves as a roadmap for intellectuals. It contains numerous questions. The questions that we must ask ourselves, in order to understand what is happening to us. While you read these words, ask questions. Do not be a passive reader. Become a participant and partner, player, and ally.

If we had done that earlier, we would not be facing this catastrophe.

These writings are also a message.

To whom?

Those who need to know already do.

Those who do not know by now never will.

We have less than seven years to stop the greatest catastrophe in the history of humankind.

Coming next:

Milyukov’s assertion or Color of Veracity