AS the world changes around us we must change with it. The nostalgia of domination is no longer a reality with challenges both domestic and international. America must recognize the precarious position of refusing to adapt.

1. A Civil War Story
There have been many wars that have shaped the fabric of American history. The question of whether
they were necessary or not is a different question. However, a glimpse into the past should create a
projection into the present. The American Civil War was not about the abolition of slavery or the
liberation of slaves. These were incidental attachments to an economic scuffle for equilibrium of
economics, not equilibrium of humanity. Whatever the case may have been, the resolution left plenty to
be desired or accomplished regarding racial dynamics in America. This cannot be disputed despite the
revisionist lens of denial. The Industrial Revolution may have freed the slaves more than any moral
consciousness.
Likewise, the current global landscape of conflicts in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East are based on
the imposition of economic policies, unhinged fidelities, and religious justifications. They are all wars of
destruction. They are the old ways of doing business to settle a dispute or occupy territory. The economics
of war has been to destroy only to rebuild later. The destroyed cannot rebuild, so the destroyer pays for
the rebuilding. This is paying twice for the same destruction. The seemingly deranged commitment to war
and allies of war whether in agreement or not is illogically apathetic to self-interest. Consider if a
sovereignty wanted to engage in war, I am sure they could start their own and not pay for others. Far too
often, most wars are rooted solely in religious ideological justifications of subjective morality.
To lambast the reasons would be juvenile, but let us consider the consequences of what is lost since what
is gained has always been anti-climactic to what was shattered. Sure bragging rights, intimidation,
conquest, or religious and political governance may have been accomplished. But sometimes not really or
only on a surface level. The undercurrent of resentment, opposition created, and ethnic or nationalistic
contempt simmering in waiting is greater. Beyond war being hedonistic and narcissistic displays of
frustration or power, it is the chess game of elites. As such, ever wonder who the pawns have been?
Pawns are sacrificed to advance a strategy in the protection of the King. Pawns only become valued when
all has been decimated and they have the chance to be “crowned” and converted into an elevated
hierarchy of power or usefulness. The King has less power than the pawns although they are still
subservient to his protection by pedigree. Pawns are the lowly slaves of the chess board to be cavalierly
forfeited. In a war who are the forfeited pawns or slaves? For example, in WW2 when the shoes got tight,
what pawn of sacrifice and degradation was “crowned” to fully participate in securing an “allied” victory?
The answer is the same pawn that was once again condescendingly discarded and contributions
minimized after they were no longer needed for war.
The Buffalo Soldiers, Red Tails, and many other Black soldiers and civilians contributed to a war effort
whose domestic agenda did not include them. Ironically, pawns are black and white but the white always
moves first for advantage. However, this article is not even about that in particular or the many white
pawns also sacrificed. There have been many recent wars since then from Korea, Vietnam, and most
recently Iraq and Afghanistan. If we only focus on the war against weapons of mass destruction, the
accusations were false but the casualties, devastation, and expenses were real. One can argue the hidden
agenda, but not the patriotism, nationalism, and commitment to American Democracy displayed by those
who later were essentially expendable pawns.
As far as terrorist accusations, many of America’s terrorist threats were once American trained or
supported in the furtherance of their terrorism against someone else. Then they were freedom fighters but

2. they are now terrorist. Furthermore, they are often religiously motivated. The two headed coin depends on
which side you called, heads or tails. The two sides of war are similarly positioned but the arrogance of
unaccountability or at least the stipulation to err should not be arbitrary to patriotism but instead justice.
The current arrogance of the colonist and religious states are under siege for this reason. The
indiscriminate unaccountability to humanity or for politics run amok has led to a hazardous road ahead
instigating WW3.
Notwithstanding the architects of 911 devastation on America and the vicarious global ramifications
since, the impact has also been an economic calamity for America. Consider how one man has reshaped
so many facets of American life and beyond strictly by the economic and governmental policy of a
country he was never a part of. Other international powers have learned where America and its colonist
brethren has refused. The new method of war is civil in both senses of the word. One is domestic
cannibalism while the other is polite in the form of vicious economics. I am afraid this will not be settled
in the usual brute manner of who to bomb or slap around. Yet, the world persist. But, who do you strike
out at when the enemy is you by your proclivities?
What America has been a slave to has become its master of destruction by implosion. More widely, why
do the global pawns continue to be ruled by ignorance or cowardice refusing to reject an elitist game of
destruction and redistribution of wealth and forced ideology. Nationalism is the older sibling of patriotism
and thus subjective to selective geography and the perspectives of that terrain. Yet still, nationalism is a
servant to religious bullying and the centuries old conflict caused by coercing beliefs upon those who do
not share them. But, I ask two questions. What religion in the world accounts for dinosaurs in the 6,000
years old history of the world? Furthermore, is it more likely the earth’s archeology is lying or the
narratives of religion are?
There is a detachment from logic overwhelmed by faith in narratives that only stand on itself but not by
independent assessment. Nevertheless, how can governments of the world not be accountable to their
people? Why do the people sheepishly submit to individuals because they made the mistake of being
governed by them? Their smug rules are not our rules and our sacrifice is not theirs. So, the people’s
money often participate even if the people don’t. Yet the same money cannot be used to better the
people’s condition. It probably is not a mere coincidence if you follow the money and not the distraction.
We are programmed units serving a superior whose wellbeing exceeds our ignorance.
But, is it ignorance if we know better but refuse to act outside our mass hypnosis? This global calibration
controlled by social and religious hallucinations become less defensible as time passes it by. But it still
exist because we play a childish game of tag or follow the indoctrination. I wonder what America’s next
civil war will be sugarcoated as for easier consumption and digestion or does it matter? The principles of
a pseudo Democracy with a pseudo religious compass governed by pseudo legislation under a fascist
capitalism of exploitation last bastion of deception is patriotism. So, the next civil war at America’s
behest will be religious nationalism. From beyond the borders of America, the attack will be fiscally and
that war has already begun following the 911 blueprint.
Devalue the currency and squeeze the pockets by escalating expenses that create no value, only a false
security, divisive accusations, and revolving victimization. This is a science experiment of scarcity
creating desperation. Therefore, the next civil war will indeed be about slaves to ideologies, patriotic
submissions, and misguided aggressions caused again by economics and religious morality. Humanity, we
should check ourself before we wreck ourself. We must be careful not to let the past haunt us. However,
the present most assuredly will define us if not haunt us. So, sadly the next global war will be to free the
slaves of antiquated justifications and ideologies. But only if we survive.

3. P.S. Perhaps immigration policy would be more successful if it addressed the frontend where they are
fleeing from instead of the backend at our border. Remember the Monroe Doctrine and the many
intrusions when they wanted to keep foreigners out before the political scramble of colonialism forced its
way in. The money spent to keep them out could be used to improve their condition. If that is not
America’s problem, neither is any of these global skirmishes we engage in while civil war bangs on our
door. By unnatural selection, immigration policy resembles the bias regulation of repopulation
administered in the old school of segregation. We freely visit or appropriate yours but you are definitely
not welcome in ours. Somehow, it is as fair as it has always been and just as destructive humanitarianly.
Thurston K Atlas
Creating a Buzz