The Mentally Sick

“Westerners thinking that ‘we’ had given ‘them’ progress and modernization? Hadn’t we provided them with order and a kind of stability that they haven’t been able since to provide for themselves.” This is what the West believed and still believes, that the former colonies shouldn’t have been left to themselves and it was their burden to recolonize them in another way, hence the birth of Imperialism. This is very aptly discussed in the book, Culture and Imperialism, by Edward Said, that colonialists have time and again referred to the “foolish”-ness to leave these countries and should reinvade them.

What we fail to realize is that the West, earlier was predominantly referred to were the European countries that had colonies all over the world mainly Asia and Africa. The tradition that T. S. Eliot so boastfully talked about in his essays was the tradition of Europe, the tradition that was deep set in its Christian ideology. But in today’s world and the new paradigms and the shift that has been created, it seems that the European countries may not have as much of an influence as US has now all over the world.

Edward Said writes in his book, Culture and Imperialism that the ‘relationship between the Occident and the Orient is a relationship of power, of domination..’ and he has rightly put so as we see today that the global south is dominated by these Western powers, mainly that of the U.S. The former colonies have certain issues and the West looks down upon them and want to take a role of a mediator or that of a master who wants these states to behave in certain ways and these countries are dying to gain favor from them. The recent show of extravagance and flamboyance by the Arab world to the President of U.S., Donald Trump and the way the gifts were given to him and the way they tried to please him, showed as if they were actually trying to win favor of the master to get some things from him. The shamelessness of these countries was quite evident and seemed as if the ruled really have no dignity when it comes to pleasing ones’ masters.

As J.C.Young mentions in his book, An Introduction to Post Colonialism, that the governments of the countries of the global south, when try to steer away from the Western influence, they are met by ‘military interventions’ by the West as it happened in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq etc. The current example is that of Palestine. The case of Palestine goes way ahead of all the ‘soft’ policies of the West. The West or the countries that have so far succumbed to the secularism, have failed to give anything but religiosity to the whole settler colonialism of Israel. The genocide of Gaza can not be described by anything religious and secular. One of the journalist I used to read when I was in college, who was brought up in the Western culture and believed that the values of East are not up to the mark of the West in terms of human rights, and freedom of speech and freedom in general, said the wall fell on him and he doesn’t want to be associated with those values any more, as these values were just on paper, when it came to Palestine, all those values turned out to be trash.

After years and years of studies of Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Post-colonialism, Settler-colonialism, we have come to the conclusion that the so-called ‘global-south’ was never a problem. The disease lies in the West and the U.S. and their Israeli friends. The disease of controlling, taking over a land, and ruling over the global south. The people, who didn’t fear them and stood their ground, resisting, were made to starve for months and then were put in cages to make lines and stand in que to get morsels of food. People, with their kids dying of hunger, were desperate and these colonists and savages and animals made them do something so heinous and insane that it will be written down in history that the tyrants were mere animals and sadists and took pleasure in hunting babies, sniping them, letting them rot in the hospital NICU beds, starving them to death and drawing their loved ones to such desperations.

The humanity? What is it ? What traits one should have to be called humans? DO we need to redefine it? Above anything and everything, one has to be clear in his mind and his head that the humanity, the values, and the doctrine shouldn’t come from the West and the U.S. no matter how prestigious their outlook is, no matter how many prestigious universities they have, no matter what! The lowest low is evident and when we think there can’t be another low to which the humanity of these people could sink to, they take it as a challenge and show us a new low, and the sadist and most sick side to them. These people need therapies and should be admitted to mental asylums rather than be seated in the posts of command!