History told this way reads almost like satire, how quickly violence is washed clean once it becomes useful to empire.
Do you think the greater obscenity is Rosas’ brutality, or the ease with which “civilized” nations cradle men like him when their crimes align with trade and profit?
This is a very good point you raise. I can't decide. I guess we're conditioned to be more disgusted by the brutal act of murder itself, but the murderers friend who offeres protection and prevents justice is equally complicit. But then isn't that the standard of 'civilized' empire building nations?
Exactly, violence is never just in the act, but in the whole system that launders it into respectability. Maybe that’s the deeper obscenity: not the single hand that strikes, but the many polished hands that shake it after.
wow, very interesting. Is history repeating itself? That England welcomed him with open arms is an affront to humanity. Thanks for the history lesson!
This seems to be something the west do, they welcome barbarians as long as they're their barbarians.
History told this way reads almost like satire, how quickly violence is washed clean once it becomes useful to empire.
Do you think the greater obscenity is Rosas’ brutality, or the ease with which “civilized” nations cradle men like him when their crimes align with trade and profit?
This is a very good point you raise. I can't decide. I guess we're conditioned to be more disgusted by the brutal act of murder itself, but the murderers friend who offeres protection and prevents justice is equally complicit. But then isn't that the standard of 'civilized' empire building nations?
Exactly, violence is never just in the act, but in the whole system that launders it into respectability. Maybe that’s the deeper obscenity: not the single hand that strikes, but the many polished hands that shake it after.
I couldn't have worded it better.
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