Andrew Mitrovica's — American fatigue syndrome — describes the situation

© 2022 Peter Free

 

06 May 2022

 

 

Lies, tumult, avarice — and intentional chaos-stimulation

 

That is the United States today.

 

Almost everyone here (who is societally influential) eagerly amputates human decency's soul.

 

 

Andrew Mitrovica put it well . . .

 

. . . though I would have chosen another example to exemplify his foundational case.

 

He wrote that:

 

 

I am so tired of the United States of America.

 

Lately, more than ever, I have wanted America to go away, and, for once, be still or quiet – just for a moment.

 

I need, perhaps like you, to come up for a gulp of air and enjoy a tiny respite from the ubiquitous presence and bane of America.

 

One convulsion after another. Repeated over and over in a loop, until a new convulsion arrives.

 

Each one reverberates like an earthquake, damaging people and places in visible and invisible ways.

 

It never ends.

 

The latest convulsion occurred earlier this week. Five men and one woman in black robes have apparently decided to do what they once promised, under oath, not to do: overturn a Supreme Court ruling delivered 49 years ago that guaranteed a woman’s provenance over her body.

 

Precedent erased. Rights erased. Progress erased.

 

Replaced by religious extremism masquerading as jurisprudence and a kind of authoritarianism that, unsurprisingly, has men dictating to women who has agency over their destiny.

 

More madness in a country addicted to madness.

 

America is fraying from the centre out . . . .

 

The cuckoo “fringe” is now mainstream.

 

This, combined with the relentless fury that is such a defining aspect of much of America, makes for a toxic and corrosive brew, eroding America’s already mythic foundations.

 

A black hole is devouring America.

 

Every day, more Americans . . . are being sucked into a disfiguring vortex of fury that inevitably translates into lunacy.

 

© Andrew Mitrovica, I suffer from America Fatigue Syndrome, do you?, Al Jazeera (06 May 2022)

 

 

Mitrovica's argument revolves around . . .

 

. . . American leadership's intentional creation of constant globally aimed chaos.

 

One can go outside the anticipated Roe v. Wade reversal to see equally obvious examples of our cultural penchant for creating violent disorder for its own sake.

 

This is why I harp so much on the United States' interminable escalation of the Ukraine situation. A war that we created and now enthusiastically push toward the cusp and precipice of starting World War 3.

 

 

Other sources?

 

I cannot acceptingly read American government or media announcements and pronouncement anymore.  

 

There is virtually never any truth in them. Most of what I see are Nineteen Eighty-Four-ish brainwashings.

 

The American Establishment's support for Reality-defying evils, of one kind or another, consistently masquerade as propriety.

 

American sheep gobble these distortions without a trace of thought. Being devoid of independent judgment and any analytical bent at all.

 

Our culture has become a metaphorical lance for advancing vicious stupidity.

 

 

For respite

 

I go to foreign (non-American, non-European, non-vassal) information sources.

 

Ones in which leaders and publics are still trying to grapple with what is real — in mentally, and arguably morally, coherent ways.

 

It does not matter to me that these 'foreigners' have their own axes to grind.

 

What distinguishes them from American and European Establishment sources is their willingness not to lie with each breath:

 

 

Not to call for squashing other people(s) out of existence.

 

Not to foment Chaos with each of their steps.

 

Not to worship human Avarice and Power-seeking, as if those were God's thoughts.

 

Not implicitly to vow to remain vacuous, self-righteous and morally repulsive — every moment of their spirit-twisted lives.

 

 

The moral? — American Plutocracy has executed our nation's figurative soul

 

What is left of our high-minded origins has become a vicious husk. One that constantly steals other peoples' blood and sustenance.

 

US culture has poisoned itself with self-generated meanness, determined ignorance and history-ignoring hubris.

 

Ours is now a catalog of Deadly Sins, camouflaged as a concern for human rights.

 

Humanity's less tormented future lies in the East.

 

Who would have dreamed that — the Shining City upon a Hill — would (apparently intentionally) mess up its innately held promise so repugnantly?

 

It is not the Saints alone who weep.