Ghouls have written our history

Victors do indeed write the history books, but they know that to tell the true story would be self-incrimination, so they lie. Their history, preached as gospel in the schools, is empty and false. It is nothing more than the boasting of racists and murderers.

Who are these victors? They aren't human. They traded away their empathy in the soulless calculus of capitalism and empire in order to climb the ladder. No one reaches the top of that ladder without becoming something less than human, a ghoul whose first instinct is not to help others, but to use them. Their only languages are money, power, and lies, so it is only fitting that they write the historical narrative in such language. Their world is so small and fetid in its emptiness that they cannot imagine anything greater than the empires they have built, so they interpret every critique of their right to rule an expression of treason.

We do not take this abuse lying down, of course not! We protest, write reports, give sermons, march in numbers, teach, and speak that we may be heard.

But the ghouls do not speak this language. Every time we speak truth to power, we make an appeal to hearts that are no longer there. Their minds are too small and brutish to comprehend the legitimacy of our arguments for equality, but they know on some primal level that equality is anathema to what little comfort and pleasure they still feel as they rot away, their connection to humanity severed by the walls of palaces they forced us to build for them. They do not listen. They will never listen. They are no longer us, and to write a historical narrative based in truth, we must see these creatures for what they are and treat them as such.

So what can we do? The clock is ticking and our full strength is still unknown to us, but we can refine our strategies such that we orient ourselves towards not asking for equality, but taking it. This the ghouls will understand. They speak the language of power and force; our conversation with them will never move forward until we begin to speak in their chosen tongue.

Trump, Michael Bloomberg, Boris Johnson, Rodrigo Duterte, Jair Bolsonaro, Jeffery Epstein and all those he catered to, the rich and the corrupt, the 1%, the capitalist ruling class that is so obviously out of touch with the lived experience of humanity....they aren't human. The sooner you realize this, the clearer our situation will become.

I will no longer give respect to their remaining veneer of human dignity. I will no longer empathize with them, because their own lack of empathy is inflicting violence on innocent people. I will no longer recognize the Imago Dei in them, for they have renounced it already. From now on, I call them what they are.

Inhuman. Ghouls. Monsters.

Only with this in mind can we begin to write humanity's true history.