During dinner with my friend David, he began to tell me about various government conspiracies against "everyone." This was sparked by my solicited advice that he needed to do certain things including learn respect for authority.
When we got to the place where he told me how the government distributed crack cocaine to destroy the blacks I faced the choice. Moral Lesson, or History Lesson?
I chose a mix. The British subjugated vast populations in the 19th century by selling drugs. The time they had a war was when the Chinese government tried to control the drug trade. He then pointed out his American ancestry who were introduced to "firewater" by the Europeans.
His cycle of trouble actually ties these two together. IF the blacks were sold crack to subjugate them, IF the native Americans were given firewater to subjugate them, IF the chinese were sold opium. None of them HAD to consume it. David thinks that since his ancestors had this dirt before the current nation, he should not be subject to its rules. But guess what. They did and guess what else, the europeans won and that means he has to "listen."
There were of course, other factors in the conquoring of the New World. This is how the world turns and one cannot try to resist the way things are now because something somewhere was not right. In essence, David is holding his ancestors who drank firewater, and my ancestors who were driven by greed to a higher standard than he holds himself and me. This is just a method of self justification. A method of refusing to be accountable. A method of saying, my homeless poverty stricken drug addled brain and starved body are some one elses fault.
When that excuse fails to pay off, blame a conspiracy.
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