CharmingOwl

When the liberals critique issues in society, it tends to come from a point of moralizing. This is especially the case in social issues like sex work or the decriminalization of recreational drugs. They will say that the people who have to make a living either doing sex work or selling drugs “have no dignity” or “Should have done something differently.” While I can understand why a rightist would think such a thing, this seems to ignore the reality of America being a third world country with no opportunities, human rights, or the potential for anyone to do anything productive with their lives. I have to give a side eye to these people who like to give others the impression that they are so progressive and advanced in their political analysis but then participate in blaming the people in poverty for their own survival.

In a society where not a single person is able and willing to help those who need it, people still find it appropriate to look down on those who are not fortunate, if they are not engaging in charity or other activities to help them while not wanting to address the uncomfortable material conditions that cause them to need help in the first place. Helping the poor while avoiding asking why they are poor, seems to be a form of virtue signaling and self-satisfaction, although I do think the intentions of the people involved are mostly benevolent.

The best answer to why liberals are so judgemental I can come up with, is because the culture of The United States is formed around survival in a capitalistic society. So the desire to hustle, emulate wealthy people and the focus on responsibility of every person for their life situation tends to reflect that. This has even influenced minority communities and created respectability politics and other movements to assimilate both culturally and politically into the United States. Influence from capitalist realism has even created ideologies that are freaks of nature such as conservatism in minority communities that would paradoxically be the targets of social conservatism in this society, which are obviously created in an attempt by these people to obtain a similar quality of life as white people. In such a society, it does not matter whether a person did not have a choice to be poor or not, because they cannot be your customer or provide you with any kind of economic help if they are not in an economic position to do so. Even marginalized people such as Trans people or those with disabilities, are looked down upon for their likelihood of having issues with employment or being self-sufficient in society.

The reason liberals are so judgemental of the proletariat, even when some may be classified as a member of the proletariat themselves, is because they have internalized the constructs of capitalist society as being inherent and not as man-made systems that are created artificially by humans, and because association with people who are so marginalized limits the chances of their own survival in society (at least on a subconscious level). This creates a kind of resentment to such people which stems from primitive evolutionary psychology. Because many people living under capitalism are more likely to succeed if they accept it, this reinforces the societal attitudes that promote darwinistic and reactionary ideologies. The saying “Go woke go broke” reflects this, and because liberalism is already a reactionary ideology pretending to be progressive on social issues, the people subscribing to such an ideology are unlikely to ever break free from the thought patterns that cause them to think that way.

In Buddhism and dharmic faiths they tell you to not have attachments to things to achieve a state of freedom from the physical world. In the abrahamic faiths it’s not that, it’s about facing eternal punishment from the demiurge if you go against its desires. While obviously that’s not what happens, something else happens that some may not want. Attachments to the world in the forms of lust, gluttony, debauchery, or even to accomplishments or altruism can result in you becoming a ghost.

Becoming a ghost is not necessarily bad and you can be a very helpful spirit to the living people of the world and guide them to beneficial outcomes. You may need sustenance in some form such as food or coffee offerings, thoughts, or rituals performed to give you energy to interact with the physical world. You can also function like other spirits depending on your spiritual modus operandi. You may be able to sustain yourself off of sex and lust like some spirits, or bodily fluids. Some can sustain on dung and animal flesh while some of the less benevolent ones sustain themselves off negative energies such as violence, anger or suffering.

To avoid becoming a ghost, you must make peace with death and make the conscious choice to move on once you no longer have a physical body in the land of the living. This sounds simple, but many do not even realize they are dead which complicates the situation. Others may be so caught up on protecting their bloodlines or fulfilling desires from their lives they do not even visit hell. If you must become a ghost, just do not become a hungry ghost, causing problems for the living due to a lack of sustenance and feeding off of the living parasitically.

When the humans and animals made the agreement that they would eat and hunt each other, the ocean goddess did not expect the animals of the sea to be included in the agreement. However, she began to notice humans and animals started eating fish and making them into food. She even saw some of her precious dolphins become food when people hunted them with spears. The Lady of The Waves did not appreciate her creations being hunted, so she made some animals that were not friendly and some that were scary and would discourage humanity from bothering the innocent fish. She created stingrays, piranhas, and sharks. Even though humans were not their main source of food, they were still scary enough to persuade humanity to stay away from them.

Hundreds of years have passed, and it has been so long that the colonial white population of North America rarely even thinks about the fact that the continent is stolen from indigenous peoples, if they even realize it at all. The parts of the world that were less destroyed by colonialism have already gotten their independence, and some even continue to exist with white minorities but with indigenous people gaining some degree of self determination. Obviously self determination does not mean the indigenous people of a country oppress everyone else in a role-reversal of the colonial relationship, and this scenario only exists in the minds of settlers who think that other groups of people are just as bad as them.

People may think they are progressive or not problematic, but then they will want to go and display an American flag somewhere. They think that they are so inclusive and socially aware, only to celebrate holidays such as the fourth of july or thanksgiving which are especially problematic since the United States can only exist over the dead bodies of the indigenous people of turtle island. People may think it’s radical to invalidate the existence of the United States, but it’s even more radical to turn your nose up to the genocide of an entire continent just so you can maintain allegiance to the war machine and not have cognitive dissonance over western imperialism being the basis of your nation’s existence.

I can already hear the responses I would get. “In some other countries things are worse” or “In Native American communities LGBT are not accepted” or other half-cooked arguments based on liberalism and idealism that also completely obscure the reasons the world is the way it is. Indigenous people did not live in a unified society but without Christianity or European social structures the ways of life would not be similar to anything we have now, and they were historically forced into boarding schools where their culture was systematically destroyed and they were forced to assimilate into American ideology. Colonial states did not allow Native societies to develop on their own so pointing to modern reservations and saying “Look, they still have issues” is unfair and colonial logic that only serves to justify continued injustices. It gives the same energy as when liberals point to Palestine and say “Hey, these people haven’t built a gay utopia!” It’s the kind of discourse we should be laughing off but somehow gets listened to by those following liberal ideology, so I have to actually explain why that’s not convincing.

Regardless of the indigenous people of Turtle Island not living up to the imaginary standards of the liberals, the anti-colonial struggle is anti-revolutionary. An Israeli gay marriage taking place in the ruins of gaza is not progress. A drone strike commanded by BIPOC on third world villages is not progressing. Female landowners stealing the land from Native people the same way a man would is not progress. Even trans women contributing to western imperialist interests in the Ukraine war is not progress. The modern way of thinking given to us by Liberalism is that minorities being allowed to contribute to the imperialist war machine is progress and helps the advancement of their communities. If you truly wish to contribute to the freedom of marginalized people, you need to remove yourself from the thought process of a colonizer. The Native people continue to have their lands taken from them to this day.

On this Fourth of July, think about what you are actually celebrating.