{"id":4779,"date":"2021-08-28T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T21:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theboisebeat.com\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2021-08-28T15:48:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T21:48:40","slug":"american-world-by-jason-lee-morrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theboisebeat.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/28\/american-world-by-jason-lee-morrison\/","title":{"rendered":"American World by Jason Lee Morrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4780\" src=\"https:\/\/theboisebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Americanworld3.png\" alt=\"American World Jason Lee Morrison\" width=\"640\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theboisebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Americanworld3.png 640w, https:\/\/theboisebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Americanworld3-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>It would be easy to say that we have won, but we cannot claim victory for a contest that we never entered, nor can we claim credit for the spread of our influence across the globe into every crevasse of human civilization.\u00a0 We don\u2019t want credit for any of it, because that was never our aim.\u00a0 But some of you have forced our hand.\u00a0 Some of you have made it like this.\u00a0 It\u2019s an American World, and it always will be, now.\u00a0 Even if America dies as a nation, the world will always be an American one.\u00a0 It\u2019s too late.\u00a0 There is no going back.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We had a great deal of power and influence before, but on that course America would have never become so engrained in the fabric of the human race as it is now.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Something caused it, then accelerated the transformation faster than anyone could have imagined.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And it keeps happening.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is truly an American World and some of you hate that fact though you cannot deny its truth.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Some of you hate it with all that you are.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And you\u2026you with the most hate.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There is something that you must know: It\u2019s an American World\u2026and it\u2019s all your fault.<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s not Terrorism.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Terrorism was in the \u201870\u2019s, 80\u2019s, and 90\u2019s.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>What you are doing is not that.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>What you are doing is Murder, and nothing less.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And it was YOU who brought us in.\u00a0 It was YOU.\u00a0 It&#8217;s you who did it to yourselves.\u00a0 Did it work?\u00a0 Did all of your murdering and killing give you what you&#8217;re striving for?\u00a0 You started this war so you could kill us.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You have killed but a couple of thousands of us while millions of your own have needlessly suffered and died.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Beside that you&#8217;ve done nothing to us.\u00a0 You have but frightened some of us a little, while we&#8217;ve hunted you down and killed you in your beds.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve done nothing.\u00a0 Nothing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Nothing but compel us to leave our homes and our lives and come into yours.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And for what?\u00a0 Was this your plan?\u00a0 Is this the world that you wanted?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Look at what your methods have wrought: the American World.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Your plan does not work for you.\u00a0 Dare to deny it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You control Afghanistan again\u2026 at what cost?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>At least two whole generations of yourselves.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And the more that you struggle, the deeper goes the blade.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Into your own peoples.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Into your race.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Into your future.<\/p>\n<p>Blame your great leaders who foment violence and death.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The fault, the blame, lies on them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Blame any man among you who says that murder of the innocent will bring you what you desire.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Unless hate, death, and 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If ten generations from now, you finally did win this world, what good things would you endow on those who have survived?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Or will the rest of the world and all its peoples fall into the utter chaos, ruin, dilapidation, and filth of the lands that you now control?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is a simple question: Are you capable of responding with anything but threats and violence?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Are there any among you who can respond rationally with the intellect and wisdom of your ancestors?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Where is the greatness of insight that developed Algebra?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Are those minds gone forever from your midst?<\/p>\n<p>You are dragging your people into a slaughterhouse of your own making, and now it is you yourselves who wield the knife.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But be wary.\u00a0 There are but few of you, and your people are many.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And they are waking up.\u00a0 One day they will see the truth of what you have done.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And they will kill you themselves.\u00a0 They will rid themselves of you who have gutted their posterity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They are not dormant or stupid as you suppose.\u00a0 They are the future, they are stronger than you, and they will stand up one day and demand a reckoning. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And they will be the world\u2019s heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be easy to say that we have won, but we cannot claim victory for a contest that we never entered, nor can we claim credit for the spread of our influence across the globe into every crevasse of human civilization.\u00a0 We don\u2019t want credit for any of it, because that was never our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1316,1268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-the-written-page-2","category-writing-and-essays"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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