Marooned | Us and Them: Part Seven
In Part Seven of Us and Them, Shahid Bolsen answers the question the entire lecture has been building toward: what actually happened to everyone inside that system, regardless of where they came from. The people who fled Europe to build America were not fleeing oppression — they were fleeing their position in it. They were tired of being the ones being robbed, and wanted the chance to be the ones doing the robbing. That is why the country exists. That is why it operates the way it does. And that culture — the 10,000-year-old culture of scavengers, raiders, feudal predators and jinn-worshippers from the barren wilderness of Northern and Western Europe — did not disappear when it crossed the Atlantic. It got concentrated, streamlined, and uploaded. Every person who has been inside that system for more than a generation or two is now a device running that operating system, regardless of their ancestry, their race, their politics, or their position in the hierarchy. The oppressed carry the same mentality as the oppressor — because it was always the mentality, not the position, that reproduced the system. Bolsen then addresses the global reality directly: to the rest of the world, every American is white. Not by color. By mentality. By framework. By the fact that no one else on earth organizes their identity around the color of their skin — that is exclusively a Western pathology, and if you do it, you have already been downloaded.
In Part Seven of Us and Them, Shahid Bolsen answers the question the entire lecture has been building toward: what actually happened to everyone inside that system, regardless of where they came from. The people who fled Europe to build America were not fleeing oppression — they were fleeing their position in it. They were tired of being the ones being robbed, and wanted the chance to be the ones doing the robbing. That is why the country exists. That is why it operates the way it does. And that culture — the 10,000-year-old culture of scavengers, raiders, feudal predators and jinn-worshippers from the barren wilderness of Northern and Western Europe — did not disappear when it crossed the Atlantic. It got concentrated, streamlined, and uploaded. Every person who has been inside that system for more than a generation or two is now a device running that operating system, regardless of their ancestry, their race, their politics, or their position in the hierarchy. The oppressed carry the same mentality as the oppressor — because it was always the mentality, not the position, that reproduced the system. Bolsen then addresses the global reality directly: to the rest of the world, every American is white. Not by color. By mentality. By framework. By the fact that no one else on earth organizes their identity around the color of their skin — that is exclusively a Western pathology, and if you do it, you have already been downloaded.