The Sad Fate of the American Empire!

By: Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN

It’s unfortunate but likely that the Western Civilization will go down into history with the same reputation as the Mongol empire.

Like the Mongols they will be remembered for their cruelty, savagery and extreme violence against all the people and population they have conquered.

Like the Mongols, they pride themselves on their military superiority and ability to afflict violence without emotion, but they will be like the Mongols remembered as cold-blooded killing machines who mercilessly subjugated 70 to 90% of the world population, contaminating every gene pool in Asia, Africa, America.
Like the Mongols, they will be remembered for exterminating entire populations, destroying and ending entire civilizations, and grounding centuries old cities around the world.

Like the Mongols, they have flattened the world, and facilitated hugely the diffusion of knowledge, technology, but like the Mongols they will not be remembered for the good things they have done, but for all the bad things they have created and promoted.

Like the Mongols, their buildings and monuments are fragile and unresistant to time. Very little will be left from their present glory after the empire will fall like all empires which preceded this one.

Like the Mongols, their knowledge, skills, sciences and technologies will be assimilated by other nations and civilizations, but all will be ungrateful to credit them for their contribution.

Like the Mongols, probably their name will be later used to designate a mental disease affecting people who are extremely violent or people who are deceptive and insensitive in applying violence on others, a kind of psychopathy.

Like the Mongols, their descendants in a century from now would wonder why so much injustice against them and their history. They would try to revive their past glories, but their stories will be shared only in small circles as their population will be only a fraction of the world population.

Like the Mongols, they think their superiority is due to a superior intelligence and blessings from their God, but the populations they’ve conquered will only remember plundering and looting as the source of their wealth, and attribute their success only to their cruelty.

Like the Mongols, they would try to hide their horrors with massive propaganda based on fear, manipulation and intimidation, but the wheels of time will see the walls of lies crumble slowly, one by one, and new emergent empires will seal their reputation.

Isn’t it the fate of all empires?

Is it still possible for the West to alter that image before their inevitable decline?

Personally, I’m not sure. The West addiction to looting and violence is so profound that it seems irreversible.

We, in Africa, would forgive, but not forget, if only the countries which have committed so much crimes here will ask sincerely for pardon, and their descendants would renounce the violent methods of their ancestors, and develop a different philosophy of life on earth in peace with different populations and nations.

Pardon comes with repentance. We are still waiting for the descendants of the slave owners and colonialists to stop the continuation of the methods and deeds of their ancestors. Unfortunately most of the fruits have not fallen so far from the trees.

China is the new Giant in the room. They have been victim of both the Mongols and the Europeans. Hopefully, they won’t go the same path.

As our friend Asar Imhotep put it “What we are used to in Western schools of education is a linear, one-sided, long, self-congratulatory narrative of Europe`s entry into history and how its great ancestors made the world`a better place`. Europeans took advantage of the world`s alleged `illiteracy` and falsified history to suit their economic needs. But as more people, Africans in particular, began to get educated in their systems, we began to uncover a history as ancient as time itself. Who we thought were the creators of civilization, were in fact indebted to those very human beings whose history they tried to erase.”