SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: "You might be dead" is a remarkable sentence. It contains, in four words, the complete psychology of the savior complex.

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"You might be dead" is a remarkable sentence.

It contains, in four words, the complete psychology of the savior complex.

You don't know where I'm from. You don't know my country's history. You don't know what political tradition I come from, what my people have survived, what we built before and after contact with American power.

You just know that without America, I might be dead.

The assumption is total. It is not argued. It doesn't need to be argued. It is the water the argument swims in.

The world before American intervention: darkness, death, dictators.

The world with American intervention: the possibility of survival, extended generously from Washington.

This is not a political position.

This is a creation myth.

In this myth, the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have no history, no agency, no political tradition, no capacity for self-determination until America arrives and either saves them or, regrettably, fails to save them in time.

We were here before you arrived.

We had revolutions, philosophies, legal systems, agricultural civilizations, and democratic traditions before your country existed.

We will be here after your empire has gone the way of all empires.

The sentence "you might be dead" tells me nothing about my mortality.

It tells me everything about how you see the world.

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Erick

@Erickschultz11

Jun 23

Replying to @nxt888

It's very simple. Other people stand by and let evil happen. We chose not to. Had we not chosen to act, you would be under the rule of a possibly communist or evil dictator or you might be dead. You need to learn how to understand things better.