Parasite Empire Unravelled
by Hiroyuki Hamada / January 25th, 2022
So before Covid, a local school where one of my kids used to
attend, had prominent race issues. Namely, teachers were being accused
of being blind to obvious racist incidences against black students. The
normalized notion of racism was so rampant that the school was forced to
embrace some sort of deprogramming sessions by a parent-led committee
on the issue. However, this committee itself was ultimately deemed
rather racist in its own way by the school’s black alumni group. To me,
at the end, it became rather obvious that the whole momentum was part of
a corporate political campaign for the Democratic Party establishment.
The same people who raised their fists and said “Black Lives Matter”
turned out to be the supporters of Joe Biden who has bragged that he was
the architect of crime bills and The Patriot Act—the very root of the
school to prison pipeline, the racist, colonial “war on terror,” the
prison industrial complex and so on. Is irony completely dead as
“reality” continues to be stretched to fit the ruling class interests?
In the end, I felt so dirty and violated to be a part of that
committee’s activities.
Fast forward to the Black-Lives-Matter-only-if-you-are-vaccinated
era, and this school is voluntarily implementing a strict mandatory
vaccine policy with few exemptions. My son doesn’t like to gossip and
he never really talks behind anyone’s back. But the other day, he said
that the whole school is basically bullying the few kids that have not
received the experimental injections. He was particularly upset about
his Black friend being given a hard time, after being subjected to the
blatant racism previously.
There are some harsh numbers regarding race-related matters and the
Covid “vaccines”. In NYC, where Covid “vaccine” mandates are
effectively shutting people out from indoor activities, roughly half the
Black people have chosen not to receive the experimental injections.
How can anyone justify segregating half the Black people from indoor
activities? What is that? And what is wrong with businesses that,
without a mandate, voluntarily exclude unvaccinated people from entering
their premises when statistical risk factors for getting the illness in
question range from obesity to old age to having chronic conditions.
To be clear, the efficacy of the Covid injections are being debated by
scientists and doctors vigorously, along with their safety issues. Yet,
there are business owners who are calling themselves “community leaders”
for being medical cheerleaders for big pharma, proud of being
brown-nosed social climbers at the expense of those who make their own
medical choices. And if we take the whole US, 40% of small Black-owned
businesses have been wiped out. This whole virus event is a giant
urban renewal push disguised as war on virus—don’t they realize what
people have gone through with war on crime, war on drugs and so on?
The cozy Covid life for privileged, resourced people who can work
from home or afford not to work is propped up in many ways at the
expense of many who are suffering under the economic restructuring process for the oligarchy.
An unprecedented wealth transfer from the already exploited population
to extremely rich and powerful people has been ongoing for the past two
years, while the kind of neoliberal restructuring they’ve been dreaming about has been implemented in the name of saving lives.
It’s really demoralizing to really understand that the mechanism of
exploitation and subjugation is rather simple. The power of the wealthy
oligarchs is so huge that they own everything. They own the media.
They own the politics. They own the governments. They own the
scientists. They own the military.
And the same people who own everything tell us that we have to
respect the separation of powers, we have to rely on “representative
democracy,” and we have to obey the legal system which is ultimately
ruled by Supreme Court judges who are appointed by, well, the same
people who own everything. Needless to say, the whole thing is made to
divide us and consecrate the rich and powerful as priests of capitalism,
because they own everything and all powers are designed to concentrate
in their hands, while the people are effectively deprived of all power.
In the US, the power of the people is represented by two corrupt
corporate political parties. I mean, they don’t really represent
people, but they pretend that they do. The situation is so obvious and
blatant that it is tedious to even mention, but the reality is that this
mechanism of two corporate entities engaging in ritualistic battles
within a strictly curated capitalist framework has been so effective in
staging the appearance of “democracy” that it is hard to discuss the
social dynamics in the US without it. No matter what ideological
leaning one has as an American, the larger than life theater of
historical myths, dramas, glories of wars, nationalistic emotions and
the reverence of the American flag are likely to be a part of the
internalized authority which builds its footings in the minds and the
bodies of those who are born on this land.
Today, many of the rich and powerful are associated with the
Democratic Party—for example, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros,
Bill Gates, and so on. This is strange because it is the Republican
Party that is supposed to represent business interests. Recent numbers
also indicate the trend: “Some
recent US figures on the distribution of income by party: 65 percent of
taxpayer households that earn more than $500,000 per year are now in
Democratic districts; 74 percent of the households in Republican
districts earn less than $100,000 per year. Add to this what we knew
already, namely that the 10 richest congressional districts in the
country all have Democratic representatives in Congress“.
Anyway, it really doesn’t matter because when people play
politics—meaning you cheer for one of the corrupt political parties—you
are not supposed to talk about how money controls social institutions
and how our values, beliefs and norms are determined by the interests of
the ruling class, and how the economic caste order effectively enforces
capitalist imperatives to perpetuate the reign of money and violence.
Believe it or not, today, this sort of understanding is labeled as
“conspiracy.” Right, you are a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy nut case
if you happen to call out corporate crimes, their criminal conspiracies
and so on and so forth. How obvious can it get? Rich people dominate
corporate politics with the good old righteousness of exceptionalism,
and a colonial attitude with the kinder, gentler face of liberal
politics, and it is perfectly OK to call a simple Marxist analysis of
exploitation a “conspiracy.”
The tendency to obscure the mechanism of capitalism is mirrored
exactly among many of those who oppose the overwhelming push for Covid
lockdowns, Covid “vaccine” mandates and so on. For many of those who
stand on the other side of the virus event, the entire mobilization is
described as a “communist takeover.” That’s right. All those diehard
capitalists who have been conspiring to perpetuate their interests
through World Economic Forum, IMF, World Bank and so on are communists
now. How convenient? You can’t have capitalism without opportunism.
But the whole thing makes perfect sense. Both ends of the capitalist
spectrum, fascists and social democrats, have always struggled to
perpetuate capitalist hegemony together. At the end of the day, their
ultimate goal is to perpetuate the capitalist caste hierarchy and their
righteous positions within it. One step with the left leg goes forward
as the right leg moves forward to balance the momentum of the imperial
hegemony — just as the hopelessly corrupt Hilary Clinton gives birth to a
Donald Trump Presidency, which, in turn, gives the Democratic Party a
reason to exist. Left, right, left, right, the empire moves forward as
it gently shifts its weight left to right. As they march the
imperial-scape together, they sing derogatory smears against any
revolutionary momentum. Both sides are free to argue and fight as long
as they adhere to the imperial imperatives of capitalism. The corporate
media ensure that the narratives are told to fit this dynamic. Those
who do not belong to the dynamics are portrayed as “others”–fringe
extremists to be demonized from multiple angles.
How does the empire gain its mythical aura of authority? Easy. They
play a good old protection racket scheme against unsuspecting “good
people.” For example, they tell people that terrorists are coming,
while “secretly” funding the killers in ways which are not so secret to
the people. People get the idea: “Oh I see. we have to pay the
protection fee. Otherwise, we get fucked up.” Or, for example, they tell
people that plague is coming, and force people to get injected with
special medicines. If the people refuse, their jobs are taken away,
their families are split apart, you can’t eat at a restaurant and so on.
They can effectively turn everyone into a dangerous element with an
infection until proven “healthy” by the designated means of the
authority. There goes the presumption of innocence along with informed
consent out of the door.
This is a big deal. There is a huge reason why an authority must
prove someone guilty without a reasonable doubt. Otherwise, people can
be arbitrarily accused of committing any crime and then punished for it.
And without informed consent, people can be forced to drink Cool Aid
just because they are told to do so. Moreover, as soon as the feudal
overloads deal with the life and death of the people, they effectively
consecrate themself as gods. A politician would claim that Covid
“vaccines” are sent by God. Cultural figures would start accusing those
who refuse the medication of “defying the law of nature,” defying
“science” and so on, effectively turning Bill Gates and the rest of the
snake oil salesmen into gods of our times.
So now it seems that even this pretend “democracy” is being taken
away by the acceptance of decrees under an “emergency” just like any
other fascist take-over.
Colonizing humanity and nature
How is it even possible, though? The capitalist assaults come in
stages. First, it attacks to destabilize, infiltrate and tear
communities apart. It destroys the fabric of communities and turns
vital institutions useless. It cultivates the ground on which the
invaders can turn themselves into the new providers of artificial social
relations, resources and facts. Then the colonizers embark on
domesticating people with their own beliefs, norms and values to exploit
them and subjugate them.
Social institutions are taken over by capital. As they lose their
functions for the people, they are further bought and sold by the
oligarchs to transform themselves into machines for the ruling class
interests. In every step of the process, people are mobilized to destroy
and reassemble their own institutions only to be domesticated by the
resulting fake institution for the ruling class. Corporate NGOs,
corporate think tanks, paid academics, paid scientists, corporate
politicians are always ready to help in this regard. This is how
education has been taken away from the people. This is how healthcare
has been taken away. This is how politics has been taken away.
The people’s institutions are intentionally deprived of resources so
that they must rely on the rich and powerful to function. Then,
privatizing and corporatizing transform the institutions into entities
for profit, indoctrination and domestication. The more you struggle
financially, the more you are likely to be trapped in a cycle of
exploitation—an ironic reality imposed by the capitalist hierarchy in
which those who could gain the most by overthrowing the establishment
are pressured the most to obey the capitalist imperatives. Meanwhile
those with privileged positions are conditioned to protect the status
quo. Hierarchies of ideas, ideologies, religions, and people are formed.
The caste system built by all elements permeates the empire—what’s
good for the empire naturally floats as the opposing elements sink
systemically and structurally. People are forced to compete in serving
the interests of the oligarchs regardless of the ultimate consequences
to them.
This is how people are indoctrinated to hate the system that gives
power to the people—socialism, and are forced to crave the system that
strangles them—capitalism. Here is a brief summary of how socialism is
actively demonized in our society:
1. Point out results of imperial assaults against socialist countries and claim socialism doesn’t work.
Examples:
- Give them economic sanctions, then call the countries “economic disasters”.
- Send death squads to destabilize their countries, then call the
enemies of the western hegemony “strong man,” “dictator,” “butcher” and
so on.
- Attempt to overthrow the government by massive propaganda campaigns, then call them oppressive.
2. Claim that no ideology, country or government is perfect, in order
to ignore the injustice and inhumanity systematically and structurally
imposed on the entire capitalist hegemony and beyond by the western
ruling class.
Examples:
- Claim that socialism and capitalism are the same when they are not
historically and in practice. Capitalism is a system guided by forces
of accumulated wealth and power. It manifests as imperialism at the
global scale. Historically, socialism has emerged to counter imperial
exploitation and subjugation. Socialist countries have been vehemently
assaulted by organized forces of imperialism. The equation totally
dismisses these obvious historical dynamics, while also obscuring the
very nature and mechanism of capitalism, itself. This position is often
expressed with the use of the word totalitarianism.
Although the term has been largely normalized in the western cultural
sphere, historically, this term has been used by reactionary forces to
equate fascism (which operates within the framework of capitalism) and
socialist countries with the intention of demonizing socialist
countries.
- Claim that all violence must stop as the capitalist hegemony targets
a socialist country, knowing that the imperial hegemony can topple the
socialist country by many means if the country stops engaging in
self-defense.
- Demonize political leaders who defy the western hegemony saying that
although the West is atrocious the dictators aren’t worth saving
anyway.
3. Utilize an emotional personal anecdote in demonizing “socialism”
in its entirety, totally ignoring its inner workings to forward the
interests of the people, imperial dynamics and so on. Reactionary
voices of those who betray their countries of origin in seeking to
secure positions within the empire are often promoted by the capitalist
media.
Examples:
- “My grand dad was killed by communists.”
- “My family members were imprisoned by a socialist regime.”
- “So and so is killing its own people. I know because I’m from there and you are not.”
4. Simply rely on propaganda lies concocted by capitalist social institutions.
Examples:
- Just mock, ridicule and demonize socialists. The notion is fully
normalized so there is no need to explain. The burden of proof is on
those who defy the notion.
- Engage in 1, 2 and 3 using the propaganda lies.
Where is this giant monster swinging right to left, guided by the
selfish motives of the ruling class, going? Is it going to put us all
in a digital prison as it continues to digitalize, financialize, and
transhumanize, colonizing humanity and nature? Is it going to declare a
war against China? These are very significant concerns, but it is
unlikely that they will be on the table for all of us to examine anytime
soon. Our thoughts and ideas are constantly, systemically and
structurally beaten into shapes by layers of capitalist institutions
over and over so that they fit into the capitalist framework. Then the
momentums of pros and cons are safely exchanged within the imperial
framework at the expense of the people who struggle to secure their
livelihood within it.
When we are beaten by the capitalists, we are put against each other.
As we fight back, we are forced to attack our fellow community members
as our institutions are further colonized as I described above. In the
corporate political theater billions of dollars are spent in picking
between hardened corporatist Joe Biden, and “reality TV show star”
Donald Trump, but we cannot embrace the political institution which can
truly function as our own—such a drastic shift is firmly demonized,
again, as “socialism,” “communism,” Marxism and so on.
Look at how doctors and nurses are forced to be complicit in the
ongoing virus event. They are forced to limit treatment options.
Effective early treatments such as Ivermectin or HCQ, which have saved
countless lives in other countries, are being ridiculed as snake oil,
because as long as there are effective treatments for the virus, the
experimental gene therapy drugs can’t have emergency use status. All
this goes on as Covid “vaccine” deaths are blatantly covered up in the
US and in other Western countries. The health professionals are forced
to put people on deadly ventilators, deadly remdisivir, and deadly
sedatives—the real reason why there are so many deaths in the US, along
with the fact that obesity is a hidden killer in patients with seasonal
respiratory illness. The more they try to protect their positions
within the institution, the more they compromise the whole institution.
Doctors, scientists and the rest of the healthcare professionals who
wish to protect the institution by speaking the truth about the virus
and experimental injections are censored, harassed and fired for doing
so, while those who obey are forced to be complicit in failing their
patients with profit-oriented protocols.
This is what the system does when it’s driven by, and for, the oligarchs.
Their exploitive schemes create crises on many fronts—environmental
crisis, health crisis, housing crisis, economic crisis, psychiatric
crisis, you name it. The ruling class officially designates a chosen
crisis to impose prepackaged corporate “solutions” for more profits,
more power grab and readjustment of the capitalist trajectory. In the
process, they destroy vital social institutions and reassemble them for
domestication. Nothing else matters other than the chosen crisis and
the associated corporate schemes. Other crises deepen as the capitalist
trajectory is recalibrated and the capitalist hierarchy is readjusted.
They will not run out of crises as long as they exploit and subjugate.
Crises are not predicaments for those who can buy their way out of
anything, they are opportunities for them. And they have nothing to
lose in the process. We are forced to do their work of destroying our
own institutions. We are forced to do their work of turning them into
our cages. They can buy most of anything, and if they can’t, they
destroy it, then they can simply buy and sell any remaining elements,
repackage them as something else and sell them back to the people.
See how it works?
As we further lose our connections to ourselves, to each other, to
our community and nature, we are freely subjected to propaganda and
indoctrination through ruling class sanctioned entities. Psychology has
been applied to adjust individuals to the hardships of capitalist
behavioral conditioning. Sociology has been applied to shape collective
behaviors within the capitalist framework. Economics has been applied to
justify the capitalist domination. Politics has been applied to
ritualize the normalization of the feudal hierarchy. Now, we see science
being applied to shift the trajectory of exploitation and subjugation.
Our behaviors are largely based on establishment-supplied social
relations, facts, culture, and so on. We don’t generally act because we
perceive actual events in our lives. Most of us go through our lives
on auto-pilot mode within the structurally sanctioned capitalist
framework. The Covid event clearly shows this aspect of our lives.
People wear masks, social distance and follow lockdown measures when
clearly stipulated; however, at the personal level, most of us do not
act like there is a deadly plague out there. The masks, very possibly
contaminated with the “deadly virus” are thrown away everywhere without
being treated as biohazard materials. People wear masks only to enter a
restaurant, then take them off to eat with strangers stuck in an
enclosed space. As soon as we are born into our society, we learn to
perceive the capitalist framework as our guiding principle over our
actual perceptions. This makes us extremely vulnerable to top-down
mobilization, as we see with the virus event. As soon as we are
systemically and structurally forced into following instructions, then
facts, our perceptions, and experts’ opinions become totally irrelevant
before the decrees coming out of the establishment. The process of
colonization of humanity and nature has been ongoing for generations,
deeply affecting how we are, and it is accelerating.
Being deprived of our actual perceptions based on material reality,
and the subsequent manufacturing of our perceptions based on
the imperatives of the ruling class interests contributes to acute
divisions among dissidents as well. The urgency of capitalist
oppressions together with marginalization of ideological positions has
often cornered those who voice their concerns into prescribing
“solutions” based on their own condition, regardless of the consequences
to others. This often happens over class lines, or against those who
are victims of imperial violence. The classic example was seen during
the imperial war against Syria. Many anti-war dissidents had taken a
position in support of the US military intervention of Syria to varying
degrees due to the western demonization of the Syrian government,
western propaganda that glorified the US backed terrorists as victims of
Syrian violence and etc. (Those who stand with enemies of the empire
are strongly urged to amend their anti-imperial positions. This urging
comes from across the spectrum; for instance, Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges
and others who are considered “dissidents” adamantly demonized leaders
of targeted countries and repeated official propaganda narratives
justifying the toleration of violence against those countries–By the
way, both Chomsky and Hedges also hold starkly discriminatory opinions
against unvaccinated people, echoing their strong condemnations of the
middle eastern leaders.)
This has resulted in acceptance of the US military attacks and the US
support for violent opposition groups inside Syria. Those
American people who insisted on saving the children of Syria by bombing
Syria and by supporting brutal terrorists, who would behead children,
failed to see the great sacrifice paid by the majority of Syrian people,
who were in support of their government and their military. Activist
communities were split into pieces, while the momentum greatly
exacerbated the US led war against the Syrian government.
The situation began to turn as independent journalists—Vanessa
Beeley, Eva Bartlett and others—started to report from Syria on the
actual situation—in which the majority of the Syrian people have
approved the determined government policy against the west backed
terrorists and the US colonial policies which had strangled Syrian
people on many grounds.
The war on virus, which has directly targeted our entire society, as
well as the global dynamics, has presented itself as a great divider
among us. Our alienated perceptions have effectively prevented our
ability to understand the course of action taken by others. The
excruciating hardship of those who wear masks 8 hours a day, 5 days a
week, or more, to keep their jobs, or the anger and bitterness of those
who were forced to be vaccinated against their will to remain employed,
or the predicaments faced by those who chose to be fired for their
medical choice, are not shared by those who do not share the
circumstances and perspectives. The virus event kept people away from
each other, prevented freedom of speech, and prevented freedom
of assembly while deeply dividing people on many grounds. It is
appalling that US media outlets actually told their audience to cut
their ties to friends and family members who are not vaccinated. Anger,
frustration, fear and hatred have been boiling in our communities.
Sadly, the situation is not any better among those who oppose the
draconian virus measures. For example, some people see anyone who
complies with a government mandate as an enemy, even if non compliance
would have meant a total loss of livelihood. I’ve seen a sad instance
in which a bar owner, who courageously spoke against the government
“vaccine” mandate for his customers, was mocked and ridiculed for
complying with the strict mandate, though not doing so could have
resulted in loss of his business. This sort of atmosphere effectively
prevents constructive community actions. It prevents natural growth of
genuine social relations among the people based on creativity and
practical means. The real struggle involves real observations of facts
and spontaneous reactions to associated events. Ultimately, it cannot be
prescribed by those who stand outside of the particular circumstance.
Without the existence of a genuine institution for the people to
coordinate overall strategies and educate people about the mechanism of
exploitation, this sort of arbitrary behavior of purging would emerge
only to exacerbate alienation and division among those who should be
united to counter the ruling class assaults. What Lenin said in
last century still stands on this regard. It also cultivates a
defeatist attitude to embrace martyrdom as the only plausible goal of
resistance.
The establishment understands this mechanism very well. That is why
organized efforts of socialists, communists, and Marxists have been
vehemently attacked by the US empire. As long as we stand with the
establishment in demonizing any potential to build revolutionary
momentum, we are bound to stay within the framework of the exploitation.
Our goal is to change the exploitive system to the one that benefits
our mutual well-beings. We are not the enemies of each other. On this
point, we have a lot to learn from the Syrian government, which has been
allowing reconciliation between those who took weapons against the
people and those who lost their family members by the violence.
Anti-Chinese sentiment
I have already written briefly about China and the virus event here, and here.
This topic continues to be crucial because China continues to present
itself as the biggest obstacle to the western capitalist hegemony.
Although China is fully integrated in the global market economy, it
continues to resist western domination of its social fabric through
western neoliberalization and financialization. This makes total sense
if we understand the very reason why China opened itself to the market
economy—it has done so to put its economic activities under the guidance
of the Communist Party of China. It allows China to grow economically
in providing for its people while preventing western propaganda
infiltration, development of western guided black market, and western
capitalist restructuring of Chinese social structure.
That is why we are flooded with anti-Chinese rhetoric today.
All western wars are ultimately imperial in nature. War on virus is
not an exception. Those who operate within the capitalist framework—
including those who claim to resist the lockdowns and the experimental
Covid injections—express their disdain toward the imperial enemy as a
gesture to express their allegiance to the empire even when they must
oppose their feudal overlords.
Historically, the western capitalist mobilizations—war on poverty,
war on drugs, war on terror and so on—that reshape and perpetuate its
structural integrity occur in tandem with imperial dynamics. The slogans
and talking points have always included anti-communist/anti-socialist
elements.
The war on drugs was about destruction of minority communities as
much as about destruction of Latin American movements to defy the US
hegemony. The war on terror ended up destroying the middle eastern
countries which have cooperated with the US hegemony to varying degrees.
The US simply does not tolerate an alternative system that
demonstrates the viability of social relations outside of the imperial
framework. Millions have perished. One out of hundred people became
refugees. Countries were destroyed. The momentum of war on terror
exacerbated institutionalized racism and structural violence within the
US as well, ultimately depriving people of legal rights through the
National Defense Authorization Act, the Patriot Act, installation of the
surveillance state, militarization of police and etc.
China has experienced capitalist onslaughts of colonialism, colonial
wars, chemical/biological attacks, proxy wars, propaganda campaigns,
regime change operations, trade embargoes, trade sanctions, economic war
and more even before it embarked on the path of socialism with its
revolution.
China has seen it all.
There is a reason why we keep hearing “China is complicit,” “the
Chinese system is coming,” and “China is violating human rights” over
and over. Because the war on virus follows the same rule. It
restructures our society to perpetuate the oligarchy, and the momentum
of exploitation and subjugation parallels the imperial violence against
targeted countries. This is why hundreds of military bases are
surrounding China, while multiple propaganda projects are being carried
out—Hong Kong, Tibet, Uyghur, continued lies about Tiananmen Square, outright deceptions stating China has killed millions of its own people.
As long as the movement of resistance
being built in the west stays within the framework of imperial
exploitation and subjugation, ultimately, it will serve the empire very
effectively. The oscillation between fascism and social democracy
applies within imperial dynamics as well. For example, within the
imperial framework, Nazi Germany was cultivated by the US industries to
assault USSR, its failure to do so then became a justification for the
US to construct its imperial hegemony. Famously, Nazi scientists and
even some political figures were absorbed into the US empire (see
Operation Paper Clip). The current atmosphere emerging is not new or
any more deadly than the imperial essence, itself. This dynamic is
crucial to understand. Failure to do so would allow another oscillation
within the empire which could perpetuate the empire. On the surface,
China seems to be a part of the momentum generally referred to as the
“Great Reset.” However, meanwhile, the western allies in the pacific
are also arming themself to encircle China militarily. China is under
tremendous pressure to accept western led financialization and
neoliberalization of their social structure. The situation greatly
echoes how USSR and its allies were subjected to containment and
encirclement. China seems to recognize the dynamics very well as I
explain shortly.
Or, down the road, the fascist “Great Reset”
might grow into a modern day economic Nazi to give a legitimacy to its
counterpart within the western hegemony just like how the US achieved
its imperial status after the WW2. The history could certainly rhyme.
Such a possibility can’t be ruled out, but who wants to become another
Nazi to be destroyed by the empire? All players understand these
dynamics. The US won’t allow its own allies to threaten its own
interests, while some allies are very eager to please the empire by
playing their role in enforcing imperial imperatives—see how draconian
measures in pushing big pharma vaccines, along with digitalization,
financialization and the rest of the 4th Industrial Revolution, are
forcefully forwarded in Australia, Canada and so on.
Perhaps the role of Israel in the imperial dynamics should be pointed
out here to illustrate the dynamics. The violence which has been
inflicted by the Israeli regime against neighboring countries and beyond
serves the war-based US economy while punishing those who defy the
imperial hegemony. Israel plays a violent guard dog for the empire under
US protection, takes on the blame for it and sustains itself in this
imperial relationship. Israel has been faithfully playing its role in
the war on virus by relentlessly vaccinating its people while
introducing various associated measures as well. Again, understanding
the war on virus requires understanding imperial dynamics.
Meanwhile, China clearly understands its position within the imperial
dynamics. China is not about to impose on itself a deadly neoliberal
restructuring such as the USSR suffered as it was being demolished.
China is not about to accept colonial war on its soil in any form
including biological attacks, proxy war or economic war. If China sees
its economic sphere as a part of its socialism with Chinese
characteristics, it stands to reason that China would have to confront
the waves of the western socio-political-economic restructuring
associated with the virus event appropriately.
It’s none of western business if China decides to prepare itself for
potential western biological attacks with any measures it deems
necessary considering that the US owns the biggest pile of WMDs along with hundreds of bio weapon facilities across the globe, along with the history of actually using such weapons during the Korean War and on other occasions.
It’s none of western business if China develops its own Covid
vaccines and virus measures in order to protect its financial
sovereignty against western waves of Covid-related neoliberal
restructuring and financialization.
It’s none of western business if China ends up succeeding in all of
the above and turning the occasion into an opportunity to strengthen its
economic viability, scientific progress and international presence with
the overwhelming approval of its people.
Parasites devouring paralyzed hosts
Twisting around fear and putting people against each other in
consecrating the unconditional authority of corporate entities over
families torn apart, communities destroyed, and individuals rendered
hopeless and hateful is not anything nature meant for us humans.
We are looking at parasites devouring paralyzed hosts. This is the
very essence of an inhumane social formation called capitalism described
precisely by Karl Marx. It is revealing that the formation is called
“communism” even by those who claim to “resist”.
Again, the colonized institutions ultimately act as cages for capitalism. They work together to recalibrate the caste system.
Over and over we’ve been deceived. We are mobilized to play ritual
battles on political theaters. We are mobilized to play “activism” on
social theaters. We are mobilized to play good citizens on cultural
theaters. We are mobilized to fight “others” on colonial theaters of
war. As long as we run around within the framework of the oligarchs, we
just shift the blame among ourselves and we keep fine tuning the very
feudal hierarchy that traps us as expendable beings.
The wealth and power hoarded by the parasitic minority never belong
to them. They are blessings of nature and humanity belonging to the
harmony among us. Those oligarchs have only one thing—they are
astronomically richer than the rest. They monopolize what belongs to us
all in order to domesticate humanity and nature. But life can’t be
contained by their primitive cage. So they have been modifying life to
fit within the narrowly defined framework of their own kingdom. We
became dumber, we are less brave, we are more cynical and hypocritical.
None of it is acceptable from any angle from which we look at it. The
current social formation is extremely destructive to our species. If we
fail to grasp the situation, gene therapy drugs, psychotropic drugs,
behavioral conditioning and so on will be fully used to exacerbate the
situation, commodifying our minds and bodies as our lives are more and
more digitized and financialized. If we become the products to be
consumed, we are subjected to planned obsolescence, reduced quality,
reduced diversity and so on just like any other items around us. They
spread their tentacles in taking over social institutions. They freely
attenuate and amplify the roles of institutions in orchestrating the
material reality to suit their interests. Again, they paralyze people
with illusions, lies, deceptions, drugs, carrot and stick and eat us
alive. We do not deserve this parasitic social formation.
We need a system which firmly ensures that the material reality
reflects a harmony of man and nature. For one thing, the ridiculous
rituals of corporate politics, corporate slogans for health, and so on
have no place in getting us out of this feudalism of money and violence.
How can we all step back a little and take a look at what is really
going on, calling out the parasites for what they are? How can we
recognize that the same colonizers who destroyed countries across the
globe have embarked on psychological asymmetrical urban warfare against
us? We are told that we are all in this together only to find ourselves
shooting each other. We are told to flatten the curve only to see our
communities flattened to be swallowed by corporate entities. How can we
build our communities with social relations based on our needs? How can
we build social institutions which can help us build a social formation
that serves us all?
The parasites devour the hosts because they do not have the ability
to engage in the creative process of life. They must lie and deceive to
imprison the subject population so that the captive beings are forced to
construct the kingdom for the parasites. Parasites are not the
all-seeing gods which they present themselves to be. In order to
survive and embrace the blessings of the universe as one of the species
on our planet, we must recognize this destructive state of being and
somehow move beyond it.
We are hardly the only ones screaming. We are a fraction of a huge
momentum of humanity continuing to make a point about our species’
obvious predicaments. The following words came from George L. Jackson
shortly before he was murdered in California’s San Quentin Prison (I
thank John Steppling for mentioning the quote recently):
Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the
reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that
people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will
live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done,
discover your humanity and your love in revolution.
— George L. Jackson, Blood in my Eye, January 1, 1972
Like Fred Hampton said:
… you can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail the
revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country but you
can’t run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a
liberator, but you can’t murder liberation.
— Fred Hampton, Speech delivered on April 27, 1969 (Movement Vol. 5. No. 12, The Movement Press, January, 1970)
Hiroyuki Hamada
is an artist. He has exhibited throughout the United States and in
Europe and is represented by Lori Bookstein Fine Art. He has been
awarded various residencies including those at the Provincetown Fine
Arts Work Center, the Edward F. Albee Foundation/William Flanagan
Memorial Creative Person’s Center, the Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture, and the MacDowell Colony. In 1998 Hamada was the recipient of
a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, and in 2009 he was awarded a New
York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He lives and works in New York. Read other articles by Hiroyuki.
