EMPIRES

 Empires and Lottery Emperors

There is already one empire in the world calling itself a democracy. The Britannica Dictionary defines an empire simply as: “a group of countries or regions that are controlled by one ruler or one government.” To an impartial observer, this definition seems to fit the United states of America extremely well.

Empires are usually either paranoid and defensive or proud, confident and with a sense of imagined higher purpose. Either type is diplomatically and violently aggressive. They need to expand their political and economic dominance and are willing to use any possible means to achieve this expansion just in case their enemies find them to be weak or badly governed.

Most historic empires also held cultural dominance not only over the controlled peoples and territories but also on other countries and peoples. However, the individuals leading empires and their people, start over and over, to feel or acquire too much hubris, leading to a gradual deterioration of their culture, wisdom and th eir ability to recognize and assess themselves. These situations may cause defections and the appearance of domestic ideological, financial or military opposition as well as jackals and hyenas or even vultures hoping to get a tasty bite at economic, financial, political and military fringes.

Against expectations or common belief, the American Empire may not suffer this hubris and learn to be compassionate, peaceful and non-invasive and hence survive if it can educate its people to understand themselves, their politics and the issues facing their culture and empire.

DO ANTS SUFFER FROM PARANOIA

 

Paranoid Diplomacy

The hypothesis that individual paranoia is contagious has been proven as fact by very recent studies involving both the workers and the soldiers. 

Since, our colonies do not have a bourgeoisie or aristocracy except for our glorious queen and the puny males of very short lifespan whose sole reason of existence is to pleasure the miraculous Lady of the Shadows, it is fair to say that our culture has no emotions like love, hate and mental sickness such as greed, competition, violent behavior.

Our nestocracy is based on instinct and instinctive behavior that has not changed in more than a millennium  or even more, according to our archive clouds which are periodically consulted by the elder workers and soldiers and, sometimes, by a new young queen before she departs to establish her own nestocracy.

The deterioration of our generation started imperceptibly, after the appearance of a group of vicious looking large red cousins, followed by dusky large black ones. Our military scouts reported the sightings but no interference with the activities of our workers.

There was some consternation and confusion but nothing that could not be handled, until, a very large tribe of small yellow cousins poured out of a recently deposited mysterious wooden object with corners, nooks and crannies and dirty cloth clinging to some parts. They were famished, it appeared, and were not prepared to use precious energy and time to gather edibles in the usual ant-way. They were gatherer-eaters rather than gatherer-hoarders. Was this their nature or a result of circumstances, was not clear. But, it just was not acceptable.

(to be continued)