What’s her name, president of Argentina, K something, wants back her Falklands - evil English imperialists stole them from her a few score of years ago and justice demands their return according to her wounded sensibilities. World’s such an amusing place, tipsy with such antic fools. I’m assuming she does understand - and the press too who straight-faced reported the story - they do understand I’m assuming that Argentina is a Spanish reckoning for silver, named thusly because the evil Spanish imperialists who created it, civilised the place as it were, let loose their busy conquistadores on the land ‘cause they thought it full of, just bursting at the seams with argentum. It was Spain taught early modern Europe how to be imperialists, they perfected the art with great ruthlessness - indeed it was England’s defeat of Spain’s imperialist Armada in 1588 that in many ways started the Saxons on their own slow rise to Empire - and so if English imperialist guilt is suppose to compel them to give up the tiny Falklands, logic dictates that a far, far greater guilt demands that the ruthless ravages of Argentina’s conquistador forefathers be undone as well. Regardless, if England’s gonna give up the lonely outpost to anyone it should probably be to the Dutch since I believe they were the first to land there - but of course you start unwinding these imperialist threads and the quilted world will fall apart in a way that will make only the gods of chaos happy. But offended liberal sensibilities must be assuaged!
The abject silliness of this reminds me of last election and the spectacle of Obama addled Latinos and African-Americans linking arms against the evils of white conservatives who are of course all proximate slave owners by the wonders of arbitrary association [the films of Quentin Tarantino prove this] - no doubt it’s simpler for these slow witted soldiers of the left to imagine the slave trade and racism in general as having been conjured up by a handful of white anglos in colonial Virginia but again in fact slavery as it came to be practiced by the early modern imperial powers of Europe [to distinguish it from the various permutations of the trade practiced by many cultures and civilizations throughout history] was by and large perfected by the Spaniards [and their Portuguese brethren] first.
Are all liberal notions this confused, this detached from a coherent reality? Often seems so - yet they give voice to their jumbled thoughts with the jejune pride of an unembarrassed conscience - I mean, Obama on a regular basis says things that are utterly nonsensical and devoid of substance and yet he imparts this besotted wisdom with such charming conviction that people embrace the received ignorance as if it were the only sanity standing between their trembling souls and a looming madness.
