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I am Living in a Demonocracy in the Era of the Eurokleptocene
On Attending a Talk at the Tenth Palestinian Film Festival in the U.K
I only just stopped myself from jumping onto a table and screaming in distress
Look, the so-called ‘Enlightenment’ never happened.
Let’s wake up to the ugly realities of Whyte supremacy. If you are living in Europe, the UK or one of the settler states such as the USA or Australia, you are living in a demonocracy not a democracy. And the age is the age of the Eurokleptocene.
No, no, contrary to what the usual propaganda that passes for Western neutrality and ‘objectivity’ might be saying, it is not the Anthropocene — because all of humanity are not responsible for the planetary-wide destruction that is starting to unfold as the Sixth Mass Extinction. No, that responsibility lies at the blood-drenched feet of the Europeans and their waves of migrations and expansion ( ‘like a cancer’, as Susan Sontag said) via the brutalities of colonialism. And so let’s call it what it is:
The Eurokleptocene Epoch.
We have to take charge of the damn English language and express the realities, so long suppressed. There was a reason why the British didn’t want the…