This Century Is Going To Suck

And it’s just gotten started

indi.ca
6 min readSep 7, 2021
Via Reddit

We live in interesting times. As the saying goes, it’s a curse. In the 21st century, the post-war order is breaking down, America has lost its goddam mind, and we’re sailing into climate change like a bat into hell. God knows we need a change, but that god is Shiva The Destroyer. This century is going to suck.

The Post World War II Disorder

What we call a post-war order is actually the shrapnel of World War II, loosely duct-taped together. Now that’s all coming apart.

The first thing to understand is that World War II didn’t end in 1945, it just ended for white people. After crossing dicks in Berlin, the US and USSR continued fighting each other for another 45 years. The Cold War was plenty hot for us in the global majority. Millions were killed and countless countries destabilized and couped. They only call it cold because that’s white people’s hearts. When the USSR peacefully imploded in the 1990s it at least seemed over, that there was a final victor, but nope.

The United States was like a dog that caught a car. They had no idea what they were doing with their lone superpower status and just became even worse bullies. America spent trillions murdering Muslims for 20 years, and have now eagerly restarted the Cold War with…

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.

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