Future challenges for America? Continuing to aggressively believe that we are ‘the’ powerhouse that ‘deserves’ to dictate how civilians of other countries spend their lives—that no other country should possess equal or similar ‘power’ in any sense. We are the solipsistic coyote forever pursuing a roadrunner we were conditioned to perceive as “weaker” or “inefficient” or “dumb.” YOU’RE WEARING A BURKA IN PUBLIC?! WELL, I’M GOING TO SNICKER ABOUT IT WITH MY FRIEND HERE AND PRETEND YOU CAN’T HEAR US! We will forever invent new ways to pursue the roadrunner we were conditioned to ‘perceive’ and never ‘know.’ Once we have that roadrunner in our widely celebrated crosshairs—no matter its gender or its explicitly proclaimed identity—we will kill it in the name of our forefathers. We will kill it the name of a flawed language scrawled on parchment. We will carry its corpse back to our bed and have our way with it. We are Men and Women, but we are always Men first. We are History, no? We are the Hammer and the Musculature. The Inventor of the Wheel. We must Impress before we Die. We must feel something temporary—mustn’t we? That temporary comfort is worth the suffering of innocents, no?
No?
