Racism is increasingly a justification given for all sorts of crimes, including a mass murder this week.   And those attacked have to prove they weren’t racist.    That’s the way it is in America today.  No one points out this murderer’s paranoid delusion that he is justified in killing those who are firing him as a proven thief.  Because it is a cultural delusion. Hallucinations of shamans and witch doctors are revered in many cultures.  It’s a cultural delusion–so it’s not labelled as madness.  In our modern American culture, many share a delusion that their problems are caused by oppression by anglo-saxons.  Taking the madness further, some anglo-saxons even self-destructively believe this.

Once again, I’m glad I’m headed for Eastern Europe where this cultural schizophrenia has not taken hold.  It will be so good to escape the belief that white racism is the cause of all black people’s crimes and problems.  It’s sad when you have to go to the former Soviet Union to escape group-think.  It’s even sadder that so many well-meaning people in the US truly believe this destructive idea.

However, “racism as the cause of all our problems” is just one manifestation of a deeper problem infecting America: blame others for your problems.  An oil spill in the gulf and our dear leader takes no responsibility for cleaning it up.  Instead he blames the problem on the people who used to be in charge.  Reminds me of Robert Mugabe and other dictators blaming the problems they cause on the colonization which ended 50 years ago.

Blaming someone else for your problems is a delusion spread throughout the culture. The Republicans seem to be blaming Obama for everything.  He does nothing right and they do nothing wrong.  We don’t learn lessons from our mistakes, instead we just try to blame others.  Of course, its pretty hard to admit mistakes of the Bush Administration when it will only stoke the tendency of Democrats to BIOB (Blame it on Bush).

This cultural delusion’s inevitable result is a plauge of trial lawyers convincing Americans to sue at every opportunity.  If someone else is the cause of your problems, then they should pay for it.  It’s a logical extension of our cultural delusion.  The rest of the world takes for granted we are lawsuit happy in the US.  But our delusion keeps us from doing anything about it.  When the head of BP says, “This is America — come on. We’re going to have lots of illegitimate claims. We all know that,” we attack him instead of seeing the truth of his statement and changing our ways.

Blaming others for our problems and demanding compensation from them is destroying all which is productive in our country.  Any productive, profitable company is sure to face lawsuits.  Every company must divert huge resources from their productive activities to dealing with frivolous lawsuits.

The most pernicious manifestation of this destructive cultural delusion is the demonization of anglo-saxons as racist.  It will destroy our society if it is not stopped. When our culture accepts the delusion that white racism is the cause of all black problems, is it any wonder that the delusion manifests itself in murder?  How many riots and murders will it take before we wake up and call this delusion what it is?

When the Ten Commandments were written, racism was not in the top ten.  In fact, throughout human history, most people have liked their own ethnic group more than others.  Until the last 60 years or so, that was not a problem.  It was like death and taxes–just a fact of life.  Anyone who didn’t like their own group the best was kind of weird.  Even if you were in a different ethnic group, you couldn’t really trust anyone who didn’t like their own group best.  It was just the natural way of things.

Now this thing called “racism” seems to have trumped all other sins.  In fact, it seems to be the only real sin left, for some people.  But it only applies to a few people.  Many define racism such that no one except Anglos can be racists.  In fact, racism is just a tool to get Anglos in line.  Nowadays, whenever an Anglo does something you don’t like, you can get him to backpedal real quick by just yelling racism.  Even if he doesn’t do anything, you can just make something up and he’ll still have to spend all his time defending himself and you win.

Yelling “Racism” is such a powerful tactic.  I’m surprised there isn’t a manual published advising people on how to use it for personal advancement.

Righteous anger is the best part, though.  This self-righteous, true-believer look comes over the face of people when they accuse others of racism.  You can make your anger into something positive when you are say you are fighting racism.  Almost as strong as the righteous anger of those fighting anti-Semitism.  Except yellling racism gives you an excuse for crime.

See a pick-up flying a Confederate flag?  You will get off if you shoot the driver.   Not satisfied with the outcome of a court case?  Burn cars and buildings and your community will be rewarded with urban renewal grants.

Yelling “Racism” has become so insidious a trend in America, it reminds me of the 50s.  Then you could accuse someone of being a communist and immediately they were on the defensive.  If they denied it, well of course they would deny it.  That didn’t mean they weren’t really communist underneath.  And maybe they didn’t even realize they were.  Maybe they were unconscious communists.  The anti-communists won that battle.  Noone wants to be a communist today.  Now they are doing the same thing with “socialism.”  And some would like to do the same with “progressive.”

I can’t wait until someone starts to use the term “institutional socialism.”  Institutional racism says: if the preferred ethnically group isn’t in control, its because of racism.  I guess institutional socialism will mean: if a rich businessman isn’t in control, its because of socialism.

To insure I offend the true-believers on both sides: calling someone socialist is the same qualitatively as calling someone a racist.  It’s name-calling.  It’s putting your enemies on the defensive.  It’s the far right’s version of  Alinsky organizing methods.

Yelling racism is far more effective than yelling socialism, though.  A socialist can repent and become a capitalist.  No Anglo can ever repent enough to not be an Anglo.

I’m not sure why people don’t see “yelling racism” as the insidious cancer it is.  Maybe when the first black incumbent President is defeated fairly and riots break out in the streets . . .  Maybe then people will start to root out this cancer.

Maybe then they will realize how it is destroying America.  How implementation of affirmative action programs tracks very closely with the decline of American manufacturing and American education.

Until we counter those who yell racism, our country will continue to decline.  We have dozens of examples of the decline of countries due to the cultural delusion that white people are the cause of black people’s problems.  Haiti is the worst example.

The second country (after the US) to throw off its colonial masters was Haiti.  At that point Haiti was the richest country in the Western Hemisphere.  In an anti-white rampage, the Haitians raped and killed all the French and most of the mulattos who were half-French.  Haiti has now been independent for over 200 years and they are the poorest country in the hemisphere.  But their modern apologists still blame racism.

We haven’t reached that point yet, but doesn’t it look like we are headed that way?