The insanity, hypocrisy, and narcissism of perceived righteousness while kidnapping humans and terrorizing and torturing them into working for you
Just Mercy chronicles the systemic inequities that people of color face when engaged in legal battle, in an in depth review of an aspect of the injustice faced by blacks. However, I think a discussion of the mindset and initial injury levied is necessary for proper perspective. Following the initial accidental “discovery” of the Americas by Christopher Columbus, the European aristocracy began a frenzied rush to acquire, claim, and drain the newly discovered land of all resources. Soon colonizing settlers found themselves at odds with the native populations as they attempted to quantify and digest “the new land” into European systems of self centered ownership. After studying the colonization of the Americas, it becomes increasingly evident that the European settlers were so fixated in the European ideology that upon encountering a new people with a different system of governance, immediately deemed them inferior, assumed that they had providence to assert their European governance over a land that did not belong to them, and therefore were justified in enacting terror and violence to force these people into abiding with the European system of governance and property laws. This was very convenient for the Europeans as it allowed them to lay claim to the land and resources to the detriment of the Native population with little negotiation, and dishonoring any negotiated terms when inconvenient with no recourse. Initially colonizers sought to enslave the Native population; however they found it difficult to enslave people in their home, especially when you are unfamiliar with the terrain. Then colonizers planned to exploit the impoverished of Europe, offering them an opportunity at a better life after a period of indenture, however the seven year term was much less profitable than a lifelong service term. Colonizing eyes turned to the shores of Africa. At no point did the colonizers contemplate how their desire for low cost margin profits justified the kidnapping, rape, terrorizing, subjugation, and enslavement of a people, they simply did what they always did, which was justify their behaviors as necessary for survival. The rational among us may ponder how the colonizers minds arrived at transatlantic slavery as necessary for survival after arriving in the Americas which were rich with food, animals, oil, timber, natural resources, and even gold, however one has to consider the environment that the colonizers came from, and the nurturing they received in their home land and the resulting mindset. For example, the Hellenic people (Greeks, Romans, Spartans, etc.) touted techniques that turned young boys to psychopathy, forcing them to the streets at a young age to fend for themselves through stealing, fighting, and scraping for survival with the weak dying off (they even “exposed” any babies that were born with disabilities), and thus equated ruthlessness as strength. For another example, let us turn our thoughts to the Vikings whom were able to survive through pillaging, which they glorified and deception (i.e. naming Iceland such so that others would be deterred from voyaging there and vice versa for Greenland). Furthermore, the European aristocracy ruled through a monarchy without checks and balances, leaving the people vulnerable to the psychological maladies of their largely inbred rulers with the only recourse being passive aggressive deceitful plots of assassination and manipulation of the stringent, repressive rules to falsely generate an infraction warranting imprisonment or even death. Furthermore, the people were ruled through false narrative (religion) which they were forced to adhere to and ignorance which results in a society that values psychopathy, narcissism, cruelty, and selfishness, and creates an ignorant, triggerable, emotionally volatile, gullible general population on which the aristocracy feeds. The people are homogenized and controlled by religion and threats of violence, and any that refuse to fall in line (i.e. the protestants that fled to America) are relentlessly prosecuted (The Witch Hunts, Spanish Inquisition, etc.), with the fears of the ruling class acting as justification for terrorizing the masses into squashing each other into submission lest the ruling class fear retaliation and engage in mass punishments (Vlad the Impaler). This cruelty is coupled with a materialistic mindset in an environment that struggled to support its population leads to a mindset that is comfortable sacrificing the lives of others for material gains (the disallowance of marriage for Catholic priest due to fear that their children would inherit their wealth, thus keeping the money within the church/parish in spite of the fact that priest were (willingly or unwillingly) engaging in sex with nuns and hiding the bodies of the babies within the walls, priests having sex with boys (access and authority attracts pedophiles), etc.) . Then we must consider that amongst the colonizers and those fleeing to the Americas are the ambitious (traditional colonizer seeking to “make his name”), the down trodden (accustomed to being the bottom rung of society), criminals and undesirables of the European society, and those escaping religious persecution (whom were so convinced of their beliefs that endured persecution over what often proved to be minor differences in theology, and were so indoctrinated that they imposed their religious beliefs and judgments on American society with some still living in the traditional way to this day (Amish and Mennonites, for example). This melting pot of trauma, abuse, ignorance, religious fervor, psycopathy, narcissism, entitlement, and fear poured onto the Americas (and pretty much everywhere else that the colonizers went) generating chaos which the colonizers were the only ones equipped/prepared to endure. Thus the bottom tier of European society gained social status by subjugating and exposing new populations to their methods.
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