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The United States tends to be the “trendsetter” for global society given the United States’ global influence. The United States is the country that fought so bitterly with itself to free the slaves, and fought for their rights. Frederick Nietzsche defined 2 types of morality, the “master morality” and the “save morality”. This concept can be explained by the slave owning concept. In a relationship of slave ownership, the master sees the slave as lower in society, and therefore thinks that his mortality is greater, better and more “Holy”. The slave sees the master as an oppressor, and therefore he sees himself and the other slaves as the “good” and the masters as the “evil”. The master and slave morality and in contradiction with each other. Another way of describing this relationship to is describe a Roman leader entering the Coliseum graciously with robes, ornaments and his entourage. His view of the people set to fight against the animals might be that they are “evil” Christians, criminals or “bad slaves”. The person set to fight against the animal might view himself as the “good Christian” or the persecuted and therefore the spectators are evil. I have described the ideas of the Frankfurt School and how these have taken hold, and obviously these ideas are more consistent with the “slave morality” than the master morality.

In the United States, the sheer number of ex-slaves who were in an existential State that was unlike the American white man, formed ghettos where crime is often a way of life. Large areas of Detroit, Baltimore and downtown Los Angeles are filled with ghettos of this time. The number of ex-slaves in prison in the United States is greater today than the total number of slaves in the United States during the slavery days. Liberal progressivism, however causes people to deny the problem and typically state that the problem is that of the justice system, or the fact that the ex-slaves do not have the money to hire good lawyers.

The ex-slaves continue to exist in a form of anarchy, a form of anarchy which characterises modernity in many ways. Rap music, Hip hop, “gangster culture” etc. come from this counterculture. The counterculture has in many ways taken over from the actual culture and in some ways the anarchist has become justified and the traditionalist turned into the enemy.

Added to this, the post-modern world has become a world of signs e.g. icons on a computer, advertising on television, music bands which often have no relation to objective reality, or a pseudo relation to objective reality caused by identification with the “issue of the month” and correspondingly wearing a corresponding wrist-band. This world of signs further removes any need to realize a deviation from objective reality, objective morality, objective social order and even objective economic reality. (The United States is heading towards bankruptcy).



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