“Islamic Cultural Erasure”
Ever since the Post WW2 anticolonial rhetoric swept the world, and more recently a return to indigenous heritge has become popular, for alot of countries and ancient culutures throughout the middle east, this phenomonon has largely been ignored. Islamic and so called “Arabic” countries (which have very little Arab blood in them), are the only countries in the world currently that idolize their colonizers and prop up the myths that erased their cultures, languages, religions, customs, values, history, etc. I believe this is a combination of Islam being such a good system of control for governments to subjugate any freedom or needs for the governments to invest into any modernization, as well as centuries of violent repression of anti Islamic sentiment within a populace (the punishment for leaving Islam within the religion is death). For generations those who would seek within countires in North Africa or the Levant are fully aware of the risk this would pose to their lives, and the brainwashed Islamic drones would respond with murderous intent to anyone that attempted to embrace their own historical culture and seek to give it its rightful place back within the hearts and minds of the populace. In my home country of Egypt I feel this Islamic cancer has stifled so much of the research into ancient Egyptian history, as the corrupt Egytpian government uses Islam as a powerful weapon to crush any anti government sentiment, and major discoveries that bolstered the achievments of pre-Islamic Egyptian civilization would risk alerting the populace of Egypt to the fact they are sitting in a land with its own culture and history that dwarfs the blight of Islamic culture in majesty and intrigue. How much longer must we wait for the greatness of the Levant and North African cultures to return and cast off the oppresive and anti-intellectual yoke of Islam? Egypt has its own culture, its own language, its own religion, its own bloodlines, all which have been stifled and intellectualy relegated back to the Middle Ages by Islam. In one of cradles of human intellectualism and civilization, people are currently being thrown into jail for dancing on Tik Tok,for creating online content, for any criticism of Islam or the government. We are talking about a religion that anyone with a functioning brain can easily deconstruct in an afternoon. This is why the religion places so much emphasis on it being sinful to question anything that the religion says, and the religion gives the pentalty of death for anyone that leaves the religion or tries to convince others of the obvious falsehoods in the religion. Despite the claims of it being a “peaceful” religion, anyone with a working brain can look at the constant death and violence that follow the toxic ideology at evern turn throughout its history. There are those who would argue that those who carry out acts of violence in the name of Islam are the ones who are actually following the religion how it is meant to be interpreted. Outside of the obvious stereotypical criticims of the religion (Mohammed marrying and consumating the marriage with his 3rd wife, the 9 year old girl Aisha. The calls to strike your wife if she disobeys. The verse that says to strike the necks of the disbelievers of Islam, which terrorist organizations use to justify beheading of people.) I would prefer to appeal to any sensible pereson by pointing out the obvious carnal nature of Jannah (Islamic Heaven) which boasts physical rivers of milk and honey, physical mystical being sex slaves that produce no bodily fluids (Houri), wine that gives you no hangover, physical roads made of gold and silver bricks, and other carnal phsyical attributes for your physical body. Islam states that you must cover your mouth when you yawn lest the devil might enter your mouth, that the sun sets into a puddle of mud, that Mohammed physically flew to heaven on a winged horse. The nonsensical nature of the Hadiths, it seems like Islamic priests and scholars use the Hadiths to try and preach to those already brainwashed by the Islamic cult, but when someone with a brain points out the inconsitencies and intellectual garbage within them they suddenly become unreliable sources, so which one is it? Music is forbidden in Islam. In the west we are told to believe that all this stuff is a misinterpetation of Islam, howver if you look at any Islamic ruled country the people are forced to live under these nonsenical rules. The left in the West arrogantly views Islam as some exotic third worldist culture that needs to be protected by them, despite Islam beign perhaps the most fascist right wing ideology in the world, that vaporizes the freedoms of women, LGBTQ peoples, and minorities. Legitimizes patriarchy at every turn, seeks to control every aspect of peoples lives, and made my early life and life for my mother and sister in Egypt after my father passed away a living hell. In order for my mom to retain custody of her own children after my father passed away in Egypt, my mom was forced to convert to Islam. What kind of heartless garbage of an ideology would force a grieving widow to first convert in order to not lose her own children? And we are meant to believe this is some religion of peace and understanding. Everyone that has been forced to live under Islamic rule and understands the true nature of Islam will tell you the truth about it. Liberals in the west will condescendingly view it as something that can only survive with their stewardship even though the ideology cannot coexist with their beliefs and way of seeing the world. As soon as the Middle East can throw off the oppressive yoke of Islam, embrace its roots and original cultures, stop being forced to embrace a false “Arab” identity, be allowed to research its original cultures, the region will advnace at the most rapid rate in history and take its historical seat among the halls of global maritime and technological prowess. North African and Levant nationalism will rise again and stop glorifying the colonizers who erased their cultures.
“NEW MACBOOK”
For example, my M4 MacBook is supposed to be the last computer i would ever need to buy,BUT it can’t handle running three programs simultaneously. Apple could easily produce a computer so powerful that you would never need to buy another one, but within a capitalist system, corporations are expected to generate constant growth. So, they gradually trickle down upgrades in computing power, forcing people to replace their computers every few years instead of delivering the best technology from the outset. In doing so, they stifle innovation.
It is no wonder that China has become so competitive in the technology sector, because companies like Huawei produce products designed to handle the workloads that artists, engineers, and other professionals actually need. In the United States, companies increasingly manufacture products that are designed to fail or require repairs because, once innovation slows, planned replacement and repair become the easiest ways to sustain profits.
Imagine what America could have accomplished when it led the world during the technological boom. Instead of using that advantage to benefit society as a whole, those who controlled the technology prioritized their own interests over the public good. That is the fundamental problem with modern capitalist societies. What have we built that would survive a global cataclysm? When our civilization is gone, the only remnants of our existence may be plastic waste.
Americans no longer have any real social glue holding them together. Instead, the country has become a conglomeration of people who attempt to be tribalistic but fail to uphold the values that are supposed to define a community when adversity arrives.
As America loses more freedoms and corporations gain greater monopolistic control over the economy, innovation takes a nosedive. There has not been a truly transformative American startup or a major American cultural movement in over a decade. As capitalism devolves into plutocracy and neo-feudalism, it strips creativity and innovation from the hands of ordinary people.
One of the classic critiques of the Soviet Union was that people no longer had any desire to work. Today, I see that same spirit withering away among Americans living through something that, in many ways, feels even more unequal than the Gilded Age.
The decline of manufacturing in America dealt a devastating blow to inventors. Manufacturing cannot be separated from innovation.
“OLIGARCHY”
What democracy, exactly, exists in the American workplace, where no one has a say in anything except the person at the top? Those who lack any shred of dignity and pander to the boss in an attempt to one day usurp them make up the backbone of these corporate fascist cabals. The American workplace is closer to an absolute dictatorship than to anything democratic.
At the root of this corporate feudalist system lie greed, jealousy, and the will to dominate others—a far cry from the supposed "Christian values" that this country was allegedly built on.
Sadly, our parents' generation was brainwashed by McCarthyism into believing there is no better way to structure any of this.
Anyone in history who has ever tried to challenge this madness has swiftly found the economic boot of the most powerful, militaristic, and brutal empire the world has ever seen on their neck, while the opiated masses ironically cheer it on in the name of "freedom."
Occasionally, someone comes along offering a glimmer of hope, only to be swept up like a dead fly into the back pocket of Vanguard. It has become increasingly clear that there is no way to win by playing by the rules of an inherently corrupt system. When you need capital to run a campaign, those who own the capital own the campaigns.
Ask yourself this question: Do you truly believe your opinion holds the same political weight as that of Mark Zuckerberg or Miriam Adelson? It sounds comical even to suggest it, which shows just how corrupt and far removed from democracy the United States has become.
If it came to pass that representatives actually gave a shit about their constituents, I believe there should be a high school-level education test that one is required to pass before being allowed to vote. Democracy becomes a cancer when the populace declines to educate itself.
The federal government is far too bloated, and the United States needs to balkanize itself in accordance with the Articles of Confederation. Democracy cannot exist on such a massive scale or in the hands of such a vast state apparatus. If each state were its own country and the United States functioned more like the European Union, there would be much less division in society because everyone could run things their own way.
“THE UNITED NATIONS”
The UN was idiotic from the jump. It was set up to give the power to veto anything to the winners of WWII, who were all powerful military empires, and expected them to uphold justice in the world. Then the two countries that were supposed to uphold peace instantly started preparing for nuclear war against each other. As long as veto power exists, they may as well just disband it because it's nothing more than a quasi high school debate club that goes after African warlords.
“THE MIGRANT CRISIS”
Capitalist businessmen bring in an army of poor migrant workers to hire in place of native workers in order to exploit their wages instead of paying native workers a fair wage. This also crushes any chance of workers unionizing, receiving health care or benefits, getting paid time off, or receiving compensation for on-the-job injuries. If the workers complain about the working conditions or unfair pay, they are threatened with deportation, essentially creating an endless supply of compliant slave workers.
Due to the rise in living and working standards in the Global South over the past few decades, it has become harder to export jobs that rely on super-exploitative business models. They then turn around and pump out propaganda blaming migrant slave workers for displacing native workers from jobs, when the truth is that the capitalist owners never considered hiring native workers for those jobs in the first place. They would have exported the jobs to the Global South if it had not been easier to exploit migrant workers within the United States.
The owners of these businesses run propaganda to deflect blame from themselves and have been incredibly successful at it. Almost no one who speaks out against mass immigration of migrant workers ever puts any of the blame on the rich business owners who hire almost exclusively slave migrant labor while raking in massive profits. They use anti-immigration public sentiment to get far-right politicians elected, who further cut taxes on the rich and eliminate workplace regulations. This creates even more division within society, preventing the working class from uniting against the true perpetrators of the situation.
Americans are quick to condemn the treatment of migrant workers in Dubai and Saudi Arabia but remain completely oblivious to the massive number of slave workers in America, even in the face of overwhelming evidence of their existence.