Fuck old Europe.
A polemic against european Anti-Americanism.

I can´t believe it. It is simply too much for me. While denouncing "the Americans" to be "dumb as shit" for electing "the monkey" George W. Bush again, they are themselves on the status on primates, believing everything their governments and media tells them without even recognizing it. Anti-Americanism is an integral part of the uprising "european identity".

Let´s demonstrate this with one situation from everydays life:
I was sitting in a course at university on the presidential election in the United States where the following was said by a women: "The USA didn´t have the enlightenment- in my eyes they are on a scientific level 200 years behind us." Well, aren´t most of leading scientists- especially in humanities from the USA? She should know this at least.
But the worst came from a sort of "left-wing" guy pretending: "It may sound harsh but the USA are build on a genocide". It´s more than unbelievable hearing such crap coming out of person from G-E-R-M-A-N-Y which is responsible for 2 World Wars and the biggest genocide in the history of mankind. And you´re pretending the USA have no right to exist? Bravo- you stupid dickhead, that true bigotry.

What´s happening at the moment in Europe is that there is a broad consensus of Europe to be seen as a counterpart to the United States. There´s no longer left or right- but one giant community bound together. Moderate labour unionists, moderate left, extreme anti-imperialist left-wing, conservatives, the far-right and even islamist radicals – they all agree in their hatred against the USA. This is the birth of a nation- ugly as a monster which emerges from a slimy egg in Ridley Scott´s movie "Alien".
States aren´t just bloodless institutions, they have to be filled with the voluntary consent of their citizens. 10 years ago hardly anybody would have desribed himself as "European" – nowadays this is becoming more and more normal and this isn´t something natural. The european nation is a construct as all nations are and needs the identification of its citizens with it.
And Anti-Americanism is the glue that holds together people in different countries and their governments to create one big "we" against an outside, seen in the USA.

What Europeans not get is that only the package looks different- the content is the same. They believe their governments are peace loving, just caring with their multilateral approach for the whole world. But in fact they don´t get the point that European states just have to focus mainly on diplomatic and economic means because their military is simply to bad equiped to keep up with the US-american one.
European states have no problems to strengthen all kinds of dictatorships like China or Iran. It´s just that the marketing of this policy is different: they try to sell it as "peaceful and multilateral" when in fact just trying to dominate the rest of the world according to its own interests.
Oh, and they have also no problem to fight wars like the one without a UN-resoluton against Serbia in 1999 with the NATO. One of the main reasons for this war, the massacre of Racak, never happened as pretended. Where was the outrage on this? Well, but the USA was involved in this one, so let´s blame everything on them, that´s surely much easier.

I´m not justifying the foreign policies of the USA but at the moment there is an ugly tendency in Europe to blame everything on the United States instead of analyzing the role of the European governments, too. The game is called capitalism where nations, companies and people compete against each other to gain maximum advance. Europe is in no way better than the United States. Anti-Americanism is just propaganda to hide the real problems by blaming all evil on a scapegoat. This is nothing else than a conspiracy theory on the role of the USA built on myths and not rational analysis.

Another form the anti-American resentment is to complain about the "Americanisation" of culture. Europeans halluzinate themselves to be flooded with American (or what they think of it) culture. Even "globalisation" is seen as a sort of US-cultural-imperialism: "they sell their stuff over here so we have to eat hamburgers all day!" But actually there are many more "Doener" and even more italian restaurants in Germany than Hamburger-restaurants.
And I´m still wondering how "typical american" the multinational furniture company IKEA . Also I really would like to know how American the company Daimler-Chrysler is (where huge company Daimler swallowed the traditional brand Chrysler to get more influence on the american market). Mhh...
The old game of "selective cognition": one only recognizes those parts of reality that strengthen the own presumptions and leaves all the other facts away, that could prove the opposite. This is how prejudices work usually.

Another fine example are those stories in the news (and also often posted on messageboards in the Internet) about people getting arrested in the USA for almost no reason or not allowed to enter the country to prove how fascist, dumb and different from us the USA are. E.g. an article published by german news magazine "Der Spiegel" on the case of a former terrorist member (!) of german group RAF which wasn´t allowed to enter the United States for the funeral of her mother . Sure, that´s a pity but the same happens at European borders every day. People aren´t allowed to enter the European countries, families get teared apart by deportation, hundreds of people drown in the Mediterranean each year trying to escape starvation and death in their home countries. Well, there are no articles in european newspapers on these people, they remain anonymous. But if a white European isn´t allowed to travel somewhere- there´s a huge outrage.

The anti-capitalist wants to abolish capitalism and replace it by a liberated society– the Anti-Americanist wants to abolish the USA and wants to replace it by – a strong Europe leading the world. And when nothing remains anymore of the civilization called USA and also all Israelis have been "driven back" to the Mediterranean (or murdered, who cares in Europe) – then, finally the 1000 years of peace will begin, Europe is dreaming of.
Thanks, I prefer a world with Israel and the USA – till there will be finally a real solution ending all the shit going on: libertarian communism.

Deaf, dumb, blind. The european way.

LFO DEMON 11.12.2004