Americans are programmed to be an ignorant and arrogant people whose culture is mainly derived from three key factors: money, media, and an ignorant, violent, racist version of Christianity. No adequate understanding of American culture and cultural celebrations such as the Fourth of July is possible without first examining these three major elements and the pervading impact they have had on the people. The USA's cultural system has proven functionally useful globally to imperialists because it provides them with citizens, soldiers, suckers, and slaves whose conditioned behavior patterns of obedience and consumption dominates their daily life. These accepted behavioral patterns have been developed over a short period of little more than two hundred years and are celebrated on holidays saturated with drunkenness, barbecued pork and all manner of self-indulgent excess. It must be remembered that the founders of the USA are the children of imperialist Europe. Like their European forebears they commonly accept a view of the world as basically "for the taking and raping." They christened it as their "Manifest Destiny." They called it "Discovery" in the past and they call it "Democratization" today...
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FOURTH OF JULY
By Husayn Al-Kurdi and June C. Terpstra
July 4, 2009
INTRODUCTION
Americans are programmed to be an ignorant and arrogant people whose culture is mainly derived from three key factors: money, media, and an ignorant, violent, racist version of Christianity. No adequate understanding of American culture and cultural celebrations such as the Fourth of July is possible without first examining these three major elements and the pervading impact they have had on the people.
The USA's cultural system has proven functionally useful globally to imperialists because it provides them with citizens, soldiers, suckers, and slaves whose conditioned behavior patterns of obedience and consumption dominates their daily life. These accepted behavioral patterns have been developed over a short period of little more than two hundred years and are celebrated on holidays saturated with drunkenness, barbecued pork and all manner of self-indulgent excess. It must be remembered that the founders of the USA are the children of imperialist Europe. Like their European forebears they commonly accept a view of the world as basically "for the taking and raping." They christened it as their "Manifest Destiny." They called it "Discovery" in the past and they call it "Democratization" today.
In response to these various stimuli, cultural attitudes have been produced which are characteristic of violent, greedy, brain washed narcissists. The language exerts tremendous influence on personal interaction and emotional tenor. The national religion, an odd mix of Calvinism and evangelical Christianity, is an ultimate expression of skepticism and greed which denies any brotherly love for the poor and down-trodden. The dominant cultural concerns include: continuation of the ability to make money; an addiction to mind numbing media; the desensitization of the youth to violence, and McDonaldization through Christian neo-conservative fundamentalism.
US CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
Wealth, Prosperity and Power
To the US citizen there is none really worthy of worship except the holy trinity of wealth, prosperity and power as represented by the obscenely rich four percent of families who own approximately eighty percent of the world’s resources. The significance of their American dream is the belief that the only purpose of life is to make money and surround oneself with stuff. This illusion is maintained and at times achieved through adherence to the teachings and practices of the corporate media and Wall Street.
The mass media, including public education, are built on five core values
1. Faith in US supremacy and the finality of manifest destiny.
2. Belief in what pretends to be the "fair and balanced" mind controlling media outlets such as FOX news, CNN and the hundreds of other channels bolstering and promoting Imperialism and inhuman capitalist prerogatives.
3. An obsessive individualism whose main goals are the attainment of wealth and power.
4. Self-gorging through binge eating, sexual debauchery, alcoholic consumption and drug addictions.
5. Pilgrimages to Disneyland and other sites of religious and secular tribute to a sociopathic society for those who can afford to do so.
Rituals
Shopping is the obligatory practice that is performed, sometimes on a daily basis, and is a direct link between the consumer and their real God, The Bank. There is no higher authority in America than the banks and the main regulatory body is the IRS. A person who knows stock market and IRS loop holes is generally revered by all Americans. Shopping mantras are advertised all day and night in media outlets.
Although it is preferable for Americans to shop together in a mall, an American
may shop almost anywhere, such as in small towns, gas stations, and airports. Many visitors to the US are struck by the centrality of shopping and materialism in American life.
The Call to Shop is a mantra that sounds something like this:
I want a Big Mac
I need a Starbucks
I testify that Money is the messenger of my worth.
I testify that Money is the messenger of my power.
Come to the mall!
Come to the Wal-Mart!
Come to Bank!
Money is Great!
Money is Great!
There is none worthy of worship except Money!
Taxes: The financial obligation upon citizens, soldiers, suckers, slaves.
An important principle of the USA is that everything belongs to the Federal Reserve (a private banking institution) and the Federal Government. There is a miserly setting aside of a proportion of taxes for those homeless, starving or poor. For the laboring class of the society there is much rhetoric but no regard. Each American calculates his or her own taxes individually. This involves the annual payment of a fortieth of one's income and assets to the government. If these payments are not made individuals can be fined and/or jailed. People reduced into poverty are starved, many suffering with untreated diseases in order to hasten a decrease in the non-consuming population.
An individual may give as much as he or she pleases to charities but these donations are highly discouraged and monitored by the government unless the "giving" is corporate-approved. Some who have organized charities for Palestinian and Muslim victims of aggression have been persecuted and imprisoned for their efforts. America has perverted the ancient "golden rule" of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" into the anti-social operational maxim "He who has the gold rules."
Celebrations
Every year during the major holidays such as the Fourth of July, citizens are exhorted to shop, over-eat and over-indulge. Above all they must shop for Christmas, celebrating a Jesus Christ who they allege "died for their sins."
The Pilgrimage
The pilgrimage to Disneyland and Disneyworld is an obligation specifically geared as a socialization process for the children and youth of the USA, even those who cannot afford to go to Florida and California each year from all over the country. The Disneyworlds provide a unique capitalist opportunity for acculturating the people to consumer living , reinforced through meeting the cartoon characters which influence their lives from their earliest years.
The Family.
The primary major factor overshadowing all other societal demands of life in the USA is the complete erosion of family and kin while pretending that family is a fundamental cultural value. The lack of family and intimate relationships is really the foundation of American society. The disconnection and isolation produced by the lack of a stable family unit is greatly valued and promoted in media as "freedom". Behind the scenes this alienation is recognized as essential for the manipulation and control of its inhabitants. A controllable social order is created by the existence of a massive federal government and a police state. Children, who are comodified and sexualized by the mass media, are kept in front of TV's, play stations and computers until the time they can serve in fast food restaurants, the militaries or prisons.
Parents are greatly disrespected in the American tradition. Mothers are particularly abhorred and blamed for all manner of psychological problems in TV pop-psychological talk shows.
The cultural style of American parenting is responsible for much of the behavioral traits. American children have difficulty establishing an acceptable pattern of ethical conduct and differentiating between love and bribery. Crazy Horse spoke of this when he said that the "White man speaks with forked tongue."
An American marriage is both a capitalist act and a legal agreement which may be dissolved when shopping in bars and dance halls for a new partner to enhance the ego. Either partner is free to include pre-nuptial conditions in a marriage. As a result, divorce is permitted as frequently as desired. Marriage customs across race, class and orientation encourage infidelity and multiple sexual partners.
CONFLICT
The people of the US are programmed towards a propensity for violence. The US expanded rapidly after the Holocaust of the indigenous people and the kidnapping and enslaving of Black people from the continent they named "Africa". The US Empire continued to expand its conquests into Central America, the Caribbean and Africa and its version of Christianity gradually became the practice of the majority of the collaborators in those countries. The Crusading assault has now turned to concentrate its efforts on Arab and Muslim lands. Among the reasons for the rapid spread of Christianity was the simplicity of its indoctrination program-- an educational and psychological project accomplished via the dismantling of culture by stripping away of language, symbols and history and reinforced and supplemented by violence designed to effect speedy conquest and "conversion" of subjected peoples.
Reasons for fascination with conflict may lie with the dysfunctional family where competitiveness and hostilities are instilled at an early age, and life generally exists under various forms of intense pressure. Two American sayings aptly describe the competitive, hostile spirit bred into American
children:
"It’s Us against the World" and "Looking out for Number One".
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| Comment by - 04 Jul 2009 - 17:49 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | | A good article and written with good humour. |
| Comment by km - 04 Jul 2009 - 21:12 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | | Good article and that has alot to do just why people from around the world come to America too; no matter if Asian, Arab, White or whatever.........all worship greed to make money |
| Comment by sennacherib - 04 Jul 2009 - 22:42 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | | Well done! A very good article indeed. I would like to insist that the utter vio lent US society is due to their no culture and no history at all. The US are lik e ferocious animals! Have you seen their insane obesity.. hey have no roots and no brain.. Have you ever seen the white, British, Dutch, Australians born in Afr ica ? They treat the locals like slaves..they have ruined the African wildlife.. For this very reason Mugabe wants to piga matako ya nguruye kangareza. Long live the Iraqi resistance which is giving the bloodthirsty savage US a lesson they will never forget. |
| Comment by layla anwar - 04 Jul 2009 - 22:49 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | | A spot on article !!!! |
| Comment by jaques - 05 Jul 2009 - 22:13 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | Crtitical of the excessess and the perversion of decency and reality in the appr oach of Washington the institution I don't find this piece amusing. It suffers t he same racism as Arabs suffer from bigots world wide but then we all ought to r ealise, even if so inbred stupid,ill-educated or simply dumb-patriots or dumb-na tionalists as to be unable to cope with the concept that they are a part of the world's problem that not all Arabs are "bad" nor are they all Mohammedans, nor all bloodthirsty religious maniacs,nor all zealots empowered by their own brand of the perverted judaism on which it rests for its origins, having demeaned the life of Jesus to blow its own trumpet as "the ultimate religion and prophecy".
On the other hand Mohammedans would be "off with the pixies" if not recognising that sexual excess and debauchery is also enacted by some, an not just a couple of Mohammedans. The same happened in Christianity and in Judaism. Though a frau d I can also refer to the use of Palestinian prostitutes by the supposedly Pales tinian hating public Israeli officials and IDF and they are also used by Mossad...Man uses sex very adroitly and demeaningly as he pleases. The moralising sexuality, the religiously inflicted and absurd concept that sex is the root of all evil is highlighted in the edomite fantasy "Adam and Eve". This religious clatrap, followed by Mohammedans and chrstian....those who follow their own "new order of judaism" instead of the new order of jesus..shows an obsession with guilt as though sexuality is not natural. In Mohammedanism and in Judaism in particular it is such a hypocrisy that it can turn a sexual act even without witnesses in the case of women (not men) into murder by stoning to death witnesses the reptilian nature of religious frauds purporting to speak for "god" who are in fact just another variety of evil personified.In christianity women who performed sexual acts with men or upon men were also brutalised and often burned or strangled. In other religions equally deranged or cunning perhaps , males and other females might set a woman alight to get rid of her, claiming she was an adultress". The perversion of sexuality to demean women in the USA is not solely American. It is a universal male trait from the brutes men (and many women) are so as to feel powerful, then justifying their bestiality under "god allah or g-d".
The Mohammedans would have to have the intellect less than that of a cow to not comprehend that using women as chattels to support the male ego is one of their own problems culturally. They might well look at their own proseltysation and b rutal application of "sharia law" to get some real idea of their own place in dr agging mankind backwards into the New World Order of what they want, totalitarian government by a system which is brutally enforced by what are little more than pack wolves roaming the streets looking for victims. Victimising women for supposed "crimes against god" so as to excuse his own sexual transgressions or fear of them is in a nutshell man at his most primitive.
Chaining the young to their post if they tried to escape and refusing education until able to satisfactorily recite the Koran was an issue which arose two decad es ago.It's hard to imagine the low brow mindset that uses such techniques, what ever the "religion", so as to feel powerful.Getting on with salvation does not r equire brutalising others, if it does then each time it is a step away from salvation not towards it. So called prophetsa, othewr than Jesus don't seem to comprehend the rights of individuals and yet even Christianity was perverted for political ends.
None of this excuses the excesses of pornography, violence, social mismanagemen t, financial conspiracy and degradation in American ,also "western" culture, bu t nor does it excuse the Mohammedan version.
Only good example can change the world into a better place and beheadings, maimi ngs, floggings and stoning as well as other brutalising of women and removing th eir rights as individuals to free choice are no part of good example.The America n model is controlled by the forces which sought to promote "Israel" as their ve rsion of the New World order. Both of you seek world domination in a fashion which can only lead to your own destruction of body and spirit but both also have no qualms about taking millions of everyday people along with you in the bloodyminded, insane concept that "if we go ....all go".
The concept of government by religious zealots is one which must always be resis ted, just as one must resist any corrupt politicians. On the other hand governme nt by bankers and "intellectuals" is quite evidently also a return to the feudal system...that's waht globalisation is about, that's what the genocides organise d by Washington and israel are about...control of the people of the world for profit. Control of the people of the world under pain of death and mayhem as exists today in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palest |
| Comment by jaques - 05 Jul 2009 - 22:14 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | Afghanistan, Palestine. Of all those Palestine is the least perverted by insiste nt Mohammedan demands that it is the ultimate image of god however the jews who were never jews which I call "zionazis" or more accurately "sionazis" have an in teresting agenda of game playing there, the Palestinian people are the zionist v ersion of Camargue bulls being bred for their enjoyment of a bullfight.
In closing on a topic of utter religious fantasies and hypocrisy and deviousness on which I have hardly begun to berate it is manifestly evident that any so cal led "god" which requires one person to murder, execute, maim, torture, stand-ove r, brutalise, demean,malign, bomb into oblivion either physically or mentally, d ispossess, require religious observance as though god were a human king over a feudal nation, demanding special privileges such as prayer rooms, special exemptions at airports, adulation (for example as being "American" or "non Arab", plotting against other nations and oher religions and other Political and cultural methodologies, raising civil disorder and abuse for their own ends, preaching democracy whilst refusing people the right to choose without punishmentand so on in a vast litany of human abuse...such a "god" is not only a man made fraud used for political purpose but is unworthy of being c alled "god" or "a god".
Unfortunately Arabs have been seduced by Israel and USA to leave their brothers in the cesspits of Israeli and Washington politicians and military.Sonme of us r ealise that this is a part of the deRothschild Illuminate evil but so also is al l of it a by product of the evil of Mohammedan excesses and the obscenity of its self righteous religious stand over tactics, like Judaism and Christianity, trying to slide out responsibility for its worse than neandethal behaviourby pointing to idealisms and goodness it also neons.
This mockery of human decency is the cause of most of the hundreds of millions o f deaths we have experienced and the woe of human misery. We see enough of such calls for abuse of others here in responses to articles with ratpack members cal ling for even more massacres of thise THEY don't like. If all concentration was on good example then the world would be a far different place but as long as bewhiskered, robed imams,ring curled and grubby looking rabbis imams and jewish robe-adorned priests of one kind or another seek to further their own cause, a cause no decent god would espouse, a cause no decent human would espouse then we will continue to have the products of the evil of fraudulent religion. |
| Comment by - 05 Jul 2009 - 23:53 [USER NOT REGISTERED] |
BRAVO JACQUE !
- THE 'ARTICLE' ONLY GOES SO FAR, AND IS ONE-DIMENSIONAL
- ZIONIST 'CHRISTIANS' ARE N O T CHRISTIANS
- INFILTRATION: IE. 'THE PROTOCOLS' HAVE HELPED DERANGE CHRISTIANITY
- IT IS THE 'PRIESTLY CLASS' WHICH PERVERT THE MORAL TEACHINGS - OR USE EXACTING FANATICISM - TO ENSLAVE THROUGH FEAR
- RITUALS / SACRIFICE HAVE THEIR 'DARK SIDE' AS WELL
- JESUS WAS AN EXCEPTION TO THE RULE - MORE BUDDHIST THAN MONOPHILE
- PEOPLE LOOKING AT AMERICA WILL SEE HISTORICAL 'FACE VALUE' - BUT THEY MUST RE SEARCH MORE
- ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT IS THE USUAL CAUSE WHEN WOMEN ARE DEBASED BY RELIGIOUS F ASCISTS
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| Comment by peace4palestine - 06 Jul 2009 - 00:03 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | Hallelujah, bruther, and amen! Well said!
Americans get the top award for ignorance and selfishness which is why I often s ay that with Bush, Americans got what Americans deserve! |
| Comment by madatali - 07 Jul 2009 - 02:21 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | I refer to long comment by Jaques, July 5th 2009.
It is downright silly, if not stupid, to refer to Muslims as Mohammedans. Mus lims only believe that there is one Allah, and their beloved prophet Mohammed(Pe ace Be Upon Him), was his last messanger. Muslims who follow Islam, which mean s surrender to the will of Allah, must not be referred to as "Mohammedans". Isl am was dictated to the prophet by Allah, and not the beloved prophet's own invention. |
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