by The Dharma Bum » Sat May 18, 2013 5:26 pm
Ha ha, I didn't claim we caused all of the worlds problems.
The rampant political destabilization that has occurred in ME, Asia, and South America in the post war era in the name of "fighting communism", now "fighting terrorism" is really just a pretext to seize valuable resources from indigenous peoples and is something our efforts most certainly did cause.
This activity is referred to as primeval accumulation of capital. It basically represents the transformation by force and trickery of the resources of another land into privately owned capital which is then introduced into our system.
Really it's the same cultural process that eradicated the indigenous population of the continental United States. Left unchecked it would probably eradicate all other indigenous cultures it came into contact with. The Guatemalan genocide by soldiers trained at the School of the Americas on the behest of US fruit companies in order to appropriate their traditional lands is a perfect example of the type of activity I am referring to. There's literally hundreds of other dramatic examples as well.