All of this, ALL of it, is centered around one premis; finding the person (or personified group) to pin the ultimate blame on.
Currently, in world society, it is favorable to blame the 'white-man', especially if 'he' is catholic and middle-class. This stems from success-guilt that plagues the American media.
The point here being that no one group is accountable for all of the ills and wrongdoings of history. Nor, for that matter, is any one group responsible for the state of civilization, good or bad.
The only marker for rational debate is current socio-economic, morla and technological state. Meaning, it is irrelevant that Pythagorus discovered A2 + B2 = C2. It is irrelevant that he probably got the idea from the Egyptians. Either way, an American invented the Television. But, then, this is irrelevant, since the Japanese improved it.
Blame whom you will for what you will. One thing is unescapable. All land has been conquered, all races enslaved, all people subjegated, all governments corrupted, all ideas stolen. Arguing over whom to pin the blame on is counter productive.
You are ultimately responsible for you. Blaming your current state on someone or something else is escapism in its worst form. In my oppinion this is the root cause of the degredation of American society anyway.
Look at Randall. You don't see him bitching that his ancestors got their asses kicked by the first settler do you? No. Which is not to say that the American Indian deserved it, or that they were bad. Ideed there is much to learn from a people so engaged in the land on which they lived. However, they too were conquered, and there land too taken. Now it is American. Some day, it will be taken again, and we(our decendants) will see the American as a subjegated people deserving of our defense. It is all contextual.
