Murders in Arizona are culturally sound

“…if the young man’s madness is not connected to the society in which he was socialized, then why don’t such massacres happen in Switzerland, for example?”

Dear friends,

Isn’t it interesting that the recent incident that occurred in Arizona is not being equated with the continuous murders by the US and Israeli governments who use drone rockets to snuff out, as it were, alleged “terrorists” in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, but mostly slaughter everyday innocents? Moreover, about that, where are all of the analyses of mainstream media pundits, much less their outrage, as we’re being fed the “crazy man” stuff here lately?

Many academic disciplines analyze people as if we are talking insects. Yet, whether you place a creature like an ant or a bee either in the Sahel of Africa or on the North Pole, it will be the same creature and exhibit the exact same behavior. Again, people are not talking insects. We are political animals. That is, we all want what We want. However, we must behave according to the circumstances in which we find ourselves, due to the social interactions that will necessarily need to happen in order for us to sustain ourselves. That is where the politics begin. In other words, since few of us grow pur own food or make our own clothes, and so forth, at the bare minimum, we must have contact with others, and behave in a way that is favorable to the party who has what we want, in order to acquire whatever it is that we need. Ants and bees, for instance, do not have that need for social adaptation.

Moreover, the history of humankind is the revelation of lots of stories about generational activities among particular groups. It is not a chronology of the tales of either “great” individuals or “great” events. Additionally, because we are social beings, our existence is based upon two conditions. They are: 1) A cooperative effort to co-exist. 2) Shared responsibility to engage in activities that are regulated by specific rules which allow the continuation of the particular group for hundreds or even thousands of years. The aforementioned generational activities are more commonly referred to as “culture".

In our society, culture is a word that is often used to refer to the higher achievements of a particular group - like painting and music. However, it (culture) involves everything that we do. Therefore, it even has a physiological significance. This is easily identifiable by recognizing the actual mental and motor reflexes that are initiated when a European American (so-called white person) who is sitting in a car pushes down the lock button as an African American approaches the vicinity of the former’s vehicle.

This notion of the initiating of both mental and motor reflexes also explains the cultural differences in the way that people draw, dance, sing, and so forth. In fact, even Our five "senses" are culturally-defined. That is, our perceptions, regarding what we feel, taste, hear, smell, and see, are determined by our cultural experiences.

Also, our culture determines the manner in which We transmit and share both behavior and ideas to present and future generations. However, the first thing that we must understand about culture is that it is largely tied to a people's resources. That is, social status and income as well as materials to produce what people need or desire determine how, why and through what medium folks can express themselves as a distinct group.

At any rate, here in USA culture, reactionary, liberal, and seemingly progressive mainstream journalists – of both print and electronic media - are now backpedaling about despicable people like those of the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. Even the African American journalists, mind you. Ouch! Yet, the milieu that reactionary folks like Tea Partyers, Palin, Beck, and Limbaugh have helped create has been great for mainstream media markets. Eh? Consequently, if the “crazy” young killer is culpable, then so too are all of those mentioned thus far, including the Obama administration.

However, now that, as Brother Malcolm prophesized, “The chickens have come home to roost.”, once again, as usual, the mainstream media and our clown federal politicians are telling the public that we aren’t seeing what we see.

Instead, the here-to-mentioned mainstream media, their agents (so-called journalists) , and pols are apologizing for the dissatisfaction and misery of too many citizens that has been caused by greedy corporations, by blaming the incident on a “crazed” person. In other words, his ideas and all just fell out of the sky into his head. He certainly didn’t get his ideas, much less his language, from anyone in this country.

Besides, who would want to conspire against such a holy forum as the US government? Moreover, conspiracy theorists would have us believe that the Boston Tea Party was a conspiracy-induced event, or that the Confederates conspired to start a war by burning up and/or stealing stores of arms and ships. Or that wealthy bankers and businessmen, along with a couple of sycophantic politicians, met and conspired on Jekyll Island in Georgia shortly prior to World War 1, in order to form the private – not public - Federal Reserve Banking system that would eliminate competition, while taking total control of our economy. Or that the US government and its military decision-makers conspire with huge corporations like Boeing, Polaroid, Lockheed, Halliburton, and others to loot the coffers of this country. “Sure. ..They are all conspiring.”, Rush Limbaugh and his pathetic ilk smirk, as Sarah Palin winks her eye at them in collusion.

Still, if the young man’s madness is not connected to the society in which he was socialized, then why don’t such massacres happen in Switzerland, for example? And why has the mainstream media seemed so unconcerned with all of the open death threats to President Obama? Imagine if it had been Clinton or Bush. Do you think that those threatening perps just mentioned would have had serious problems? Instead, their behavior is shrugged off. So why all of the noise over this, as if it’s a surprise? And why aren’t the four elderly women who were murdered receiving any attention? Are the mainstream media outlets saving their stories for future sales?

Look at Obama’s and BiBi’s drone-killing crusade in Pakistan, Iran, and other places. On top of that, the US government just promised the Pakistani government $7billion in “aid”. Meanwhile, just as in Arizona, nationwide, politicians like Palin and other brave men and women shoot down birds who are minding their own business and call that a sport. Worse yet, such folks think that they’re “bad”, when they shoot defenseless and unsuspecting moose and hang the dressed heads of the unfortunate creatures on their living room walls (and they have the nerve to talk about Michael Vick) .

So, why is the sicko in Arizona less deranged than the US Army helicopter pilot in the WikiLeak link post below this one who tells his Army cohort, “You do the shootin’…I’ll do the talkin’!”, while he’s lying on his radio about eight armed men, to his base?

Finally, President Obama’s suggestion of Democrats and Republicans “uniting” misses the point, aside from the fact that folks like Tea Partyers, Palin, ad other Republicans are probably humored by the whole Arizona incident. (That’s a cultural thing in this country.) Instead. at least to me, what we must do is change our value judgements away from profit and greed, especially since greed is always short-sighted (from the cheating spouse to bank scandals to the BP oil spill), and start socializing our youth to revere all life. However, capitalism can’t survive without war/killing, because a continuous production of commodities for profit, with only a finite amount of consumers in any specific geographical area, calls for “finding” more consumers, by, for example, invading another country and making its citizens become consumers. So why all of the thoughtless and dishonest excuses about crazy people and vitriolic rhetoric? Let’s keep it real!

G. Djata Bumpus