«I can choose better than you, what results best for you.»

The authoritarian tenet

Consider the following versions of the same authoritarian and ultimately imperialistic tenet:

Compare with the following civilized approach:

Only minors, persons severely affected by sickness, and other mentally incapable individuals cannot make the best choices for themselves whether temporarily or permanently. And, in those cases, a legal guardian makes those choices once acknowledged the condition of the person.

Of course, the civilized approach may become more fruitful with an offering of true help, collaboration, or alike interaction.

In the book «Asynchronous Exchange: The End of Capitalism» I explained why two humans, even utilizing the same input data, will frequently make different choices in the same situation. Furthermore, the notion that «every person should self-determine its own life, as every person results the owner and supreme commander of its own life» constitutes the foundation of any culture based on «democratic freedoms» —the concept of «democratic freedoms» likewise introduced in the aforementioned book.

The imperialistic practice

Yet, imperialistic individuals, both in domineering positions and in vassal positions, typically will embrace the imperialistic tenet. And this tenet blinds those imperialistic individuals from the inhumane and anti-social consequences of many of the actions of the empires they defend.

Here I share some instances familiar to me, together with the corresponding refutation of the imperial arguments:

1. Typical pro-stateian propagandists assert that «The USA massacred hundreds of thousands of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the last stage of the Second World War in order to save lives of both japanese nationals and stateian nationals, by prompting a quick and unconditional japanese surrender». Here the propagandists pretend to assert that the stateian empire can choose better than the japanese people about the lives of those same japanese; moreover, at a time when the japanese could not perform any significative offensive actions anymore.

   Nonetheless, if the stateians either could not win the war by legitimate means, or did not want to endure the cost of their victory, that did not entitle them to murder hundreds of thousands of non-combatants. This massacre constituted a blatant war crime punishable by civilized societies. Furthermore, it resulted the legitimate right of the japanese to fight to death if they wanted to, or to overthrow their own command chain otherwise. And, as much stateians can believe in their supposed (but actually oligarchic) democracy, the japanese could believe in their emperor as legitimate ruler; no one made a substantial effort to convice the japanese people to take a different path, as resulted cheaper and faster to murder them.

2. Many ordinary stateian nationals assert that «Regardless of the cynical lies of the Bush administration for invading Iraq in 2003, the stateian empire did a favour to the iraqui people by removing the dictatorship which ruled that country». Stateian propagandists could assert a similar falsehood in the year 2026 and afterwards in order to justify the invasion of Venezuela.

   The stateian imperialistic mind-set blinds stateian simpletons from the fact that the iraqui people did not demand the ousting of the dictator at that time, that the stateian empire did not consult the iraqui people about any regime change and the iraqui people never requested assistance for it, and that they alone make the assessment that they did a «favour» to the iraqi people. There prevails the ethnocentric, supremacist, authoritarian stateian assumption that «We, the illuminated stateians who built the greatest country in human history (from our point of view), can choose and do better than the brute iraquis who would not overthrow their dictator by themselves.»

   Moreover, the invasion of Iraq by the stateian empire pursued and achieved the actual goal of securing the dominion of iraqui oil resources in favour of stateian and other transnational capitalistic oligarchic corporations. As usual, subsequent supposedly «progressive» elected officials of the stateian state, never reversed the actual effects of the invasion produced by the Bush administration when they could; and, accordingly, those fake «progressives» did not dismantle the dominion of the stateian empire and accompanying capitalistic corporations over the iraqui people.

3. One of the typical justifications for the cultural genocide by the medieval spanish empire in America consists in asserting that «The spaniards came to civilize the savages who lived in the continent; imparted to them the true religion, and assigned to them christian —actually spanish— names. Western empires served as vehicles for spreading advancements to the rest of humankind.» According to such falsehood, enslaved and brainwashed americans should thank the spanish invaders for subjugating them and erasing their cultures.

   The most obvious facts recorded here:

   • The spread of knowledge or any sort of «advancement» does not require imperialism or subjugation as prerequisite. Not now, not ever.
   • Any «true religion» which earns the preference of a human, will not advance through imperialism or subjugation either, but rather by the personal beliefs of the adherents. Furthermore, christianism does not require as requisite of membership that the convert acquires a spanish name (both given and surname) or that the convert speaks the spanish language.

   • By the time of the spanish invasion of America, inhabitants of the «old world» already could assemble libraries and collections of documents. However, the invaders chose to destroy all the original writings of american peoples and only ordered the vassals to re-write a few modified versions under close supervision.

     The actual goal of the cultural genocide of american peoples by the spanish invaders, and the actual goal of spreading christianism among them, consisted in—

     • Erasing any sense of collective allegiance or «identity» among the vassals.
     • Reducing those vassals to a complete ignorance of their own past, present, and future.

     • Training the vassals into the very-manageable christian docility which instills obedience as fundamental practice; where, if a masochist god can accept almost-unbearable suffering, then the pious followers can too accept a lot of pain. Compare with other mythologies where an exemplary god would never become masochist, live in indigence, or accept humiliations; for example, the mesoamerican deities comprise a «god of war» called Huitzilopochtli.

       Defenders of the spanish empire claim hypocritically that brainwashing using christianity served for «pacifying» americans, while the spaniards warred during centuries to liberate themselves from muslim caliphates, and while european christians frequently resorted to organized violence as means for expanding their religion.

   The instrumentalization of christianty as a tool of dominion consitutes a central feature of the former spanish empire. Competent vassals would, naturally, organize to seek freedom, equality, and prosperity for themselves; so the cultural genocide served as primary strategy for maintaining the colonial order in America.

To reiterate, recall:

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Anders Baerbock
2025.365