The Good American People

Above and below you will find some pictures from www.yourewelcomeeverybody.com. Here the good american people congratulate themselves on behalf of the world for a job well done, a job they took a part in, a job for which they are wholly unapologetic. What I like about these pictures is that they are a kind of synechdoche or, 'part for the whole'. That is, they seem to reveal in interesting ways, in tiny details, the whole political ideology which they mean to express. I like to think of them as anthropomorphisms of the state. "They" are America. What comes across is the the arrogance, the ignorance and violence, the piggishness, and the inability to recognize in their communication to the world the hideous ugliness that they are become. I have provided some captions in a crude attempt to augment through rational reconstruction what might also be present in their minds. It is my hope that the dear reader will enjoy these photos as a Dutch aristocrat might enjoy paintings of peasant brawls. For these pictures also show the low grade squabbling of lesser beings. But they add more to our knowledge than did the peasant brawls of Brueghel, for they reveal the political false consciousness of redstate america. These features are unmistakable here and now. It is no wonder that our rulers behave as they do because these are the people who have elected them. And it is no wonder these people are as they are because this is how their rulers have ruled them. These are the values that have been taught to them and, coupled with their own intrinsic human limitations, produce monstrosities.