Response to a facebook repost by my friend Jessie.

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Um....payback for Pearl Harbor was getting firebombed and nuked...hundreds of thousands dead, millions injured and homeless. I love how when things fit with their world view it's god or karma (a terribly misused concept).

It keeping with that logic, it fits my world view to say that maybe god has blessed us with such xenophobic and self-centered citizens because he hasn't forgot about Hiroshima.

Actually...when you think about it, the Japanese killed god during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and we are replacing it with a plastic, Americanized version of karma.....which now has a personality a lot like the one god used to have, but without all the rules and speaking in thy's and thou's.

Karma can dance. Karma pops his collar and can close with cougars. Karma makes apps to make your day better. HA! We don't need to do colonoscopies anymore, we know that up people's asses it looks like "karma" is running things! Sardonic woot!

Seriously though....this is just residual costs of creating the "greatest generation". Convincing people that there is a black and white, true evil and true good without them noticing the irony in the concept that we believe you should be "free", and we will kill anybody who thinks differently, well...that's complicated.

I think "free" should officially be spelled that way every time.....with quotes around it.

The war posters, news reels and emotional news reports that geared the US up to sacrifice for the greater good in order to stop fascists (who's basic tenant was sacrifice for the greater good) from taking over their neighbors is still having ripple effects on fucking facebook! Again, HA!

Not that I want to be told what to do by some dictator. Fascism would have probably interfered with our ability to buy consumer goods, and that's why it lost....not because of, well karma or god or whatever.

Pearl Harbor was an attack on a naval base, and while it might have been good tactics militarily momentarily, the Japanese have, in so many ways, conceded over time (in their wisdom) that they miscalculated the unifying force of a unilateral, preemptive attack.

This is a huge positive effect of Pearl Harbor, that we see it as "evil" to just go attacking other countries. It would be a real shame if, as we emerged victorious from WW2, we began to use our elevated status in the world to attack....oh....oh dear.

If countries were elementary school children then the US and Japan definitely share test answers, pass notes, sit together at lunch, and possibly most importantly, swap pudding cups for brownies. They are our great friends. We are damaged by them being damaged. When they pay, we pay.

...And lastly, these people posting disdain for Japan and its struggles, as remnants of probably necessary, surely outmoded propaganda are not representative of the US as a whole. No, that's not what's troublesome about this to me. What pricks me is the full knowledge that these people aren't any worse than representative of Americans, and that Americans aren't any worse than representative of people.

I'm an asshole, you're an asshole as are the Japanese, karma bless their stupid hearts. I fear for a world where sarcasm is the steam valve for the transcendent man, but at least in America I am free to write about it on facebook.

A.