Columbus, White Guilt And Hemispheric Union

Cristoforo Colombo

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristoforo_Colombo

Dear Fred,

Thanks for your email.

For me, Columbus -- or more accurately, the territorial-expropriation-cum-quasi-genocide that accompanied the subsequent Conquest -- is not a matter for guilt or shame.

Rather it a question of restoration and not legal as much as migrational.

If Jews can return to Israel after choosing to leave Israel 1900 years ago. native Americans (or First Nations as they're now called in Canada) are welcome to return to all parts of America after having been forced off the land (or killed off the land) just 500 years ago. (There is also the matter of Abraham having stolen Canaan in the first place, whereas First Nations occupied an empty hemisphere.)

First Nations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations

I welcome the return of the native gene pool and look forward to the fruitful interplay between this "new native migration" and the European residents who -- back when they had both vision and balls -- launched a remarkable experiment predicated on Emma Lazarus' exhortation.

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

The title of the poem and the first two lines refer to the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The poem talks about the millions of immigrants who came to the United States (many of them through Ellis Island at the port of New York).

The "air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame" refers to New York City and Brooklyn, not yet consolidated into one unit in 1898.

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I am surprised that I cannot find my prior writing on the creation of a Hemispheric Federation and do not have time to create/refine a de novo proposal.

In brief... 

The Western Hemisphere must (by geopolitical necessity) "imitate" the European Union and WILL do so if only to create a large enough demographic polity to counterbalance China's emerging economic primacy. 

After postulating prior need that hemispheric nations demonstrate "threshold regard" for human rights, equal opportunity, environmental integrity and governmental  transparency -- a process that could be accomplished in a decade -- those nations that meet all benchmarks will join a federation with open borders and equal cross-border economic opportunity.  

Once the Hemispheric Union is established, it will create an even larger federation with the European Union.  

Voila! In fewer than 50 years, China and "The Western Federation" are of equal size. 

All that stands in the way of this geo-political necessity is xenophobic exceptionalism. 

Those who oppose federation invite China -- with its four-fold demographic dominance -- to "run away with the world." 

Once we "do the right thing," all existing dispute concerning "Columbus" and The Conquest will bleach to oblivion in the light of a new day. 

In the meantime, we will suffer the circled wagons, ongoing claustrophobia, general benightedness, sub-clinical paranoia and frightful alarmism of a nation --- primarily its cowardly (and therefore self-destructive) white population --- which is hellbent on the restoration of theocratic Christianity as ISIS is intent on establishing The Caliphate. 

I am reminded of Neitzsche's admonition: "When fighting a monster, be very careful you don't become one." 

It is not secret that "fundamentalism" and Islamism are mirror images of one another. 

The question is whether America - in the main - will be destroyed by The Death Dance. 

Pax on both houses, 

Alan

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:

I finally managed to transcend Catholic guilt, which is not to forsake it, but to know that a little guilt goes a long way.

But what surprise me is to find myself in the midst post-Columbian guilt.

I was taught original sin because I aim descended from Adam and Eve, bound to labor by the sweat of my brow.

So why the fuck should I feel guilty if Christopher Columbus munched the natives?

I don't need to be disillusioned any further. I now know that Mickey Mantle was a boozer and womanizer. From that I can assume that all my heroes have a past.

But the guilt part -- why should you feel any shame?

If you are doing something that is wrong and you feel guilty because of that, then stop doing it!

Otherwise your guilt is a sham and an excuse to not face the real consequences of your behavior.

Christopher Columbus paid or is still paying for his sins. 

I will pay for my sins. You will pay for yours.

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