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Re: Fuck you Julian Cope
Apr 07, 2005, 03:03
At the beginning of 2005CE, vestiges of America’s belief in ‘Manifest Destiny’ are still evident in its government’s perception of the rest of the world, the ‘Outlands’ if you will. From the dismissive ‘muddy creek’ comments of American marines’ encounters with Iraq’s legendary river Euphrates, evidence is clear that many modern Americans have ‘little connection with the past history of any of them, and still less with all antiquity’, as John L. Sullivan wrote over 150 years ago. But far more chilling is the fact that Sullivan’s self-righteous words written so long ago still – for many of we Europeans and Brits at least – sum up modern American foreign policy:

‘We have no interest in the scenes of antiquity, only as lessons of avoidance of nearly all their examples. The expansive future is our arena, and for our history. We are entering on its untrodden space, with the truths of God in our minds, beneficent objects in our hearts, and with a clear conscience unsullied by the past. We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march? Providence is with us, and no earthly power can.’

Nuff Said, brothers and sisters. Welcome to the New World, I guess.

But whereas Colin Powell felt the need to pat his fellow Americans on the back when he referred on primetime TV to his country’s generous deliveries of aid to the stricken peoples of Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India; the people of Britain – a country less than 1/10th the size of America – has just got on with it and collected £50 million. However physically large it is, no country with its eyes only on the future will be able to weather the storms that Mother Nature chooses arbitrarily to inflict upon us from time to time. Such is the reason we employ verbs like ‘to weather’ in the first place. Britain and Europe have been places of refuge and hope for millennia longer than the United States of America. And when America’s dispossessed gay people, Jewish people and liberal artistic communities run to Britain and Europe for sanctuary from the right wing’s New Theocracy, I’ve no doubt we shall happily make room for them all – and without too many smug smiles of self-congratulation.

To the human spirit that drives us ALL!

Julian Cope.

It's easy to be selective. Is this anti-american?
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