Americans Who Really Hate Their Country

Vast numbers of Americans, meaning especially millions of wealthier and better “educated” Americans, tend to have a fixed inferiority complex concerning what is thought, by them, to be the truly much more advanced European culture and high civilization; this is as negatively compared to what exists in this country; thus, to them, Europe is strongly perceived as being much more solidly progressive and not a reactionary, backward-looking, cesspool, for they do long for a New Weimar Republic to exist in their nation.

This kind of (formerly curious) negative attitude was not always the historical case, however, as will be later discussed. So, more immediately, the highly interesting and complex question is being here posed: When will they, those having this observed inferiority complex, have finally arrived at their assumed terrene nirvana (of a decadently Europeanized “Weimar Republic” created in the New World)?

Significantly, this basically concerns when it may finally occur to them, if ever, that this nation’s own domestic culture and civilization may someday be thought of as at least equal to that which is now said, one assumes, to greatly exist in the Old World. (Europe, to the effete and degenerate part of the upper class, easily has more liberated and greatly enlightened attitudes toward sex, pornography, social experimentation, collectivism especially, etc.)

Or, will that supposed “day” never truly come in the (radically defective) minds of those who always will necessarily think, more or less, that the proverbial grass is surely greener always on the other side.

Perhaps, moreover, no national outstanding achievements or incredible accomplishments in, say, the arts may ever substantively or substantially reach, to them, the then assumed exalted level regularly expected as, thus, mainly coming from Europe, the superior locus of all that remains or becomes truly great in terms of culture and/or civilization (in their ever pre-prejudiced minds).

And yet, the aforementioned attitude, within this nation’s history, is still relatively recent concerning, at the least, the massive disaffection of most of the upper class in this country. Previously, it had only or normally been a relatively tiny minority of expatriot types who had sought relief by leaving these shores for an improved vision of what they thought they needed or, perhaps, desired to so successfully find. What, nonetheless, does the older historical record reveal, in the following very brief survey, given merely to be just illustrative and suggestive?

Some American artists in the Colonial Era and after became major international successes, meaning in Europe; but, this was not at all, however, any dramatic sign of presumed alienation on any grand scale; in the 19th century, there were, it is true, some unique writers such as Henry James who, for instance, said that he could not withstand his country because it lacked a sense of tragedy [though his earlier years here had covered the time of the War Between the States, though presumably not tragic even for James with his quite ultra-refined tastes]. As is known, he became, consequently, a naturalized British subject.

After World War I, as yet another limited example for an era, there occurred what was called the “Lost Generation” of Americans, such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and many others among them, who turned up usually in Paris. Although born in Missouri, Eliot, of course, had sought his particular form of cultural solace and revelation in England and, thus, became a naturalized British subject.

But, as was noted correctly in the first paragraph of this article, various arbiters of American tastes were not, in fact, predominantly alienated from these shores nor predisposed to eagerly look elsewhere for varieties of cultural or civilizational enlightenment. And, most of this nation’s history, in general, proves this point most easily.

The Puritans, for instance, pertaining to very early American history, sought to come to the New World, as it used to be called, to found, according to John Winthrop, the forever shining “City upon a Hill” (1630) that would, supposedly, act as a light to wondrously attract the interest and admiration of the rest of the civilized world in a spiritual sense.

The majority of the American revolutionaries, later, thought that, indeed, a New Order of the Ages (see the Latin inscription noting this on the back of a $1 bill) had surely begun in America to stimulate all valuable human achievement ever after on this planet, especially for political enlightenment purposes. The American Revolution, moreover, has been said to have inspired the French Revolution of 1789 and various other revolutions, throughout the 19th century, in Latin America and, of course, elsewhere.

In the early to mid 19th century, the “imperialistic” concept and slogan of Manifest Destiny kept being enlarged further and further, meaning that the USA simply had to “naturally” expand its own known, superior, democratic culture and civilization from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, hopefully, to include someday or somehow all of Canada and Mexico, of course. The progressive march of America across the North American continent was held synonymous with the true progress of democracy at home and, by a nationalistic expression in such thought, around, in effect, the entire world. Americanism and progressivism in thought, therefore, were then widely held to, basically speaking, be just entirely synonymous.

Many of the mid to late 19th century American filibuster adventurers, e.g., going into Latin America, as a seemingly logical extension of the preceding thinking, saw then no actually necessary limits to this understanding of an expansive and self-justifying destiny covering the whole Western hemisphere itself. Thus, in the early 20th century, as simply a part of the “logical” culmination of such an attitude, there was in firm empirical existence the Panama Canal Zone, perceived as permanently sovereign American soil, to be kept there for protecting, of course, the American-built canal by that same name.

However, the aforementioned kind of rather nasty disaffection and, yes, massive alienation that has, in fact, occurred is not that unusual within the recorded history and context of the modern era. In the 18th and into the early 19th century, the majority of the Spanish elite, meaning primarily the aristocracy, had become extremely Francophile in their sympathies, viewpoints, and general attitudes, so much so that they had become divided against the common people who generally held to nationalistic feelings. Things French were thought, by definition, to be so genuinely much better, to be, in short, truly enlightened, correct, reasonable, and rational.

When the Napoleonic conquerors had, in fact, arrived, in the very early 19th century, the bulk of the aristocrats then greeted them as supposedly heroic spirits who were simply and fortunately liberating their benighted country from its, as they perceived it, vile sluggishness and backwards, reactionary orientation and nature as to age-old Spanish cultural characteristics and domestic social thought.

Thus, there are certain sure parallels in history that can be clearly cited, to good effect, concerning how alienated, upper-class, effete people can come to nihilistically detest and decisively reject the bulk of the cultural and social realities, the national patrimony; these are, thus, so overtly represented by their own disvalued, disrespected, and, yes, quite thoroughly detested countrymen, meaning the broad population base of their dishonored native land.

So, this article, in reiteration, pushes fast forward a problematic question that may not, perhaps, ever be really answered. Alienation has truly been its own kind of sordid tautology of self-justification and self-serving rationalization, though rarely, if ever, recognized as such by the enlightened snobs, by the nattering nabobs of negativism, as was once, in fact, so keenly and correctly said. The self-inflicted inferiority complex, inherent within the decayed intellects of these despicable and contemptible moral cretins, will forever keep them (sufficiently and dedicatedly) alienated from their detested country, from the land of their birth.

And yet, … and yet, the vast majority will never seek to leave these cursed shores, presumably because they are confirmed masochists as well as being slimy and vile cultural traitors. [The author of this article, for those interested readers, has posted an earlier one fully exploding, refuting easily, the alienation thesis as supposedly being only an intellectual and cultural possession of the ideological Left.]

The major irony to all of the above considerations , however, is that when the supposed utopia arrives, its many possessors actually, on the whole, do seriously hate it; the great 20th century philosopher, Leo Strauss, had tried, mostly uselessly, to urgently warn people against the false ideal of a universalization of an idealized Weimar Republic; because with it, necessarily and automatically, comes its enemies who will prove much tougher and tenacious than the deconstructionist or relativistic supporters of any moral chaos conceivable.

Today, the crescive Moslem fanatics, as, e.g., in Holland, analogously do take the place of the Nazis as virile and insistent opponents, dedicated enemies, of Weimarization in Europe or anywhere else. But, the Islamic community (subversively) insists, at the same time, that it does not wish to ever be a victim of discrimination or, of course, have any of its civil rights abused; it is as certain that if any European nation became an Islamic republic, on the other hand, the then true nature of this intolerant religious group’s protests would be, at last, revealed as being completely hypocritical and, as noted, subversive of free government, of all basic civil liberties and rights; their deceptive rhetoric, thus, needs much solid exposure.

Yet, the too willingly tolerant Europeans, meaning the majority, become then, increasingly, ideologically disarmed by those who so plead minority rights and seek protection, they say, against discrimination. Much has been and is and will be allowed to aggressively occur in Europe in the name of Islam, in the 21st century, which is no longer permitted at all if it would be done for the sake of promoting or much less carefully protecting Christianity; such is, interestingly, part of the aforementioned irony involved in all of this weird trans-cultural scenario sadly presaging the decline and fall of Western culture and its liberating civilization.

Perhaps, many liberal-minded Americans now see Obama as their true or, thus, expected champion to revolutionize the USA and take it more into the direction wanted, by them, in terms of Europeanization, if not yet a full attempt at radical Weimarization. In any event, it is, on the part of any conservatives or so-called conservatives (the neocons), simply morally reprehensible and, moreover, totally antithetical to an extreme in genuinely wanting to sincerely wish the President-elect well (concerning – what? – his ideological agenda’s basic welfare and success).

Such basely absurd sentiments of (bizarre) well wishing, when properly examined, are nothing short of social, political, cultural, and moral insanity and, moreover, a vile masochistic desire for attaining, in its ultimate, a form of national suicide. So, in conclusion, the asseverated real answer to the proposed rhetorical question is that “they” will never have finally arrived, meaning that always going too far to the Left can, thus, never ultimately be actually that far enough.

As with any mirage, therefore, the closer people get to it, the faster it necessarily fades away into mere nothingness as readily compared to its original image, perceived clearly, when at a distance; the “it” (that does not ever exist) is justifiably called Utopia; it is the realm of ideological fanatics who, in the cited case above, positively hate their own native land as a sure way of not knowing how much they hate themselves in the psychological process of such a convenient detestation.