The Return Of History: The Destigmatizing Of Genocide

There is no Two State Solution regarding Israel and Palestinians.

Both sides, for reasons you can find all over the Internet, claim that the matter is deeply-rooted and therefore existential in nature. Compromise is not acceptable.

Therefore there is only one result that will happen regarding this conflict: one side will exterminate the other. We can call this "ethnic cleansing" as a euphemism, but let's not lie- this is genocide. Just ask the Armenians.

And--and this is where people will REEEE--I cannot be bothered to be outraged by it.

Like it or not, this is the historical mean--THE NORM--is existential ethnic conflicts. Scythia ceased to exist. The Iceni got wiped out. Several tribes in North America no longer exist.

Pre-Modernity and Modernity alike has plenty of outright extinctions and many more than might as well have been. What is different in that the Myth of the 20th Century, the Boomer Truth cult, frames this as a unique phenonemon to mid-century Germany and thus as a uniquely evil act that had not happened before- despite the Soviets doing far worse, to far more, in the decades preceding it. When an Asian angle is needed, they bring up Nanking under Imperial Japan.

What I object to is this moralfagging bullshit all around the matter by self-interested grifting shits who talk and talk and talk as if they can do a damned thing about any of it.

They can't. No one can. The die is cast. No amount of protesting or any other action will do anything by either side to put a stop to it. Furthermore, people should stop getting in the fucking way. This should have gone down decades ago and reached a final, permanent conclusion one way or the other- it should be decided already.

Instead, I ask only that it be done in the spirit of Sherman's March To The Sea: with the greatest speed, violence, and brutalty possible to shatter the enemy and put him down for good- and then, on a dime, STOP and be done with it.

Because, unlike far too many people, I actually comprehend what General Sherman meant by his deliberate and willful cruelty of Total War against the South and its population- and thus why it worked. Furthermore, I do comprehend that both sides see this as an existential conflict--as being on Death Ground--and I would rather see it settled permanently now and be done with it than to have it fester any longer like some infected wound- and I also know first-hand how bad that can get. I wear a fake leg now for a reason.

It is a waste of time and resources to insist upon peace with neither side wants it. It is a waste of time and resources to stick one's nose in such an affair when you're not a party to it. Instead, the best thing to do is to establish Containment and then, as that movie line goes-

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Then deal with whomever is still alive when it's over. If the world can handle dealing with Rome after butchering Boudicea, it can handle dealing with whomever stands after this is over.

Shit happens. Sometimes that's some big shit, and this is certainly some big shit. Welcome back to History, folks, in all its glory and ugliness. This is not the only genocide that's going to go down this century, so you might as well get used to it now as the Myth of the 20th Century finally withers away and dies- taking the Boomer Truth regime with it.

I don't have to like it to acknowledge that this is on the table, that it's going to happen, and there's sweet fuck-all that can be done to stop it. You don't either. Don't let anyone give you shit for acknowledging that the best of a bad situation is to get it over with as fast as possible.

And yes, bad shit like can't be avoided as Empire Falls.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to prepare for the fallout from this shitfest because the Thralls in Globohomo are already talking about shipping the surviving losers into the West.