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Violent America

Thursday, 20 September 2007

Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D.

Two big issues pertain to violent America. One is the existence of collective violence being a way of life (Bailey, American Crime) and not only in the Americas but throughout the world-and not only in modern times but from the beginning of European history at least 45,000 years ago. This is easily verified by noting over 37 wars in the last 50 years and by reading "off the mainstream" literature. An example in Violence in America (Graham, p5) says: "Europeans of other centuries often destroyed children they could not provide for." A mindset like this and other savagery were brought to the Americas when Europeans came to claim it in the 15th century, as if the Native Americans did not even exist. Europeans stomped on the friendships of the peaceful residents; deliberately killed their food supply; stole all their gold, silver, and diamonds; and killed and chopped up men, women, and babies (for which they were honored with things like statutes). On every rung of the social ladder Euro-Americans seized, held, and realigned the levers of power by means of the gun and every imaginable evil deed. Those in power have always projected their evilness on to their victims and then "made an example" out of them to deflect attention away from what they were doing. Euro-Americans accept this evilness because to them it is normal. What they can not tolerate is any of their victims doing what they are doing.

The second issue is crystallized in the old saying: "If you tell a big enough lie, long enough, and to enough people, they will believe it." This is like looking at a sheet of paper containing a "magic picture"-i.e. a stereogram-which, at first glance, seems to have only two dimensions-up/down and right/left. However, that stereograph is an obvious (façade or false front) picture-an illusion that hides what is really there. Gullible people accept this as is. But Sophisticated people will continue staring at the picture until a mental switch shows them a third dimension-a backward/forward deepness that changes the entire picture-the picture conveying the real meaning.

Since the Renaissance, Europeans have been masters at creating belief changing "magic pictures" (e.g. movie and television delusions) to make them look like a superior people. Gullible people around the world have bought into this and refuse to believe reality-e.g. to believe Europeans are a historically violent people. They are like little children who are more attracted to the sparkling trinkets Europeans dangle in front of them (e.g. the technological developments; the façade "good life") than the treasures which characterize such sound traditions as those of Africa and China. Gullible people absorb such lies as the USA being a democracy and defender of the rights of all its citizens (which has never been true) and follow like sheep follow the shepherd to the doom of their social structure. By contrast, the sophisticated think about the seeds of violence generated by television--e.g. in every other program somebody is holding a gun or there is the glorifying of war (e.g. Hitler) or violent cartoons. Observers notice that in such television series as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and cowboy movies that the theme is killing or dishonorableness in order to acquire money and power-features of "Flexible Morals." Observers know they can not get the truth from television or newspapers about the part the USA plays in local and world violence and thus they go on the internet where people give a broader and more realistic view of just how violent the USA really is.

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Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D.