April 22, 2026

The Americas, as a continent; presently they are South Americas, United States, Canada and Mexico; were the land of indigenous people, 15000 to 30000 years ago. Archeologists and paleontologists have discovered that they were immigrants from different parts of Asia who established hundreds of cultures and even sophisticated civilisations and lived peacefully despite their rivalries till the Europeans arrived in 1492 via the Bering Land Bridge which connected Alaska and Siberia during lower sea levels. The Asians were both hunter gatherers and agriculturalists and were a healthy and peaceful people till the end of the fifteenth century CE, until Europeans arrived and seized their lands, organised forced removals of the inhabitants, transferred different diseases with which almost 90% of the indigenous people died; engineered conflicts between and among the people leading to several American Indian Wars.

France was the first to think of colonising the new found world in the 1530s by establishing settlements in the Mississippi valley. Spain followed in the 1560s to look at possible settlements in the south west areas of present Florida. Netherlands followed in the 1620s and other Europeans also arrived. Both land and other areas associated were those of the indigenous people, with cultures of hundreds of small little nations and they were all taken over by the Europeans.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in Bahamas starting the contact between Europe and Americas. The Columbian Exchange; transfer of plants and animals, European human population, cultural influences, import of technology and the establishment of the New World of Europeans, led to the European influences, including change in food culture by the cultivation of not only tomatoes and potatoes and meat like pork and transport animals like horses. Christopher Columbus, the Italian, also initiated the slave trade, just as they introduced to the local people rum, brandy and whisky. In fact, the Europeans called it the age of discovery, which was indeed the age of exploitation because of the displacement of the native people, sheer eradication of the culture, both of which led to the decline of the indigenous people by almost 90%. Around this time, a couple of decades later, establishment of the Spanish bases in the Caribbean resulted in the completion of the colonisation of the Americas, indeed the worst of the beginning of European onslaughts.

Roanoke Colony, established in 1855, famously known as the "Lost Colony," was located on Roanoke Island in present-day Dare County in North Carolina. 117 settlers arrived there under the leadership of Governor John White with the sponsorship of Sir Walter Raleigh; soldier, statesman, financier and organiser from Britain. However, a couple of years later, in 1587, John White returned to England for collecting more supplies for the settlers. However, when he returned in a short time, the entire colony had vanished. What remained was only a carved mark on a tree with the word ‘Croatoan’ which was the name of a community nearby and the governor could not trace any people there. The most recent research result defines that the colonists would have got assimilated into the local Croatoan community or would have perished due to disease or conflict with any other group that would have attacked them.

Though Netherlands established colonies in the present New York and New Jersey in 1624 and Sweden, in Delaware in 1638, Britain took over their colonies and became the primary coloniser of the Atlantic Coast of North America and continued to organise and develop themselves till the thirteen colonies emerged as a single unit to fight for liberation from their colonialist motherland, Britain, which culminated in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783. Though there was a Declaration of Independence from the colonisers, that independence was not available for indigenous people or the African slaves and their descendants. The economic and social exploitations of both these communities continued despite the initiation taken by an exceptional leader, George Washington. Cultivation of tobacco, slavery, promotion of use of rum and other alcoholic products, exploitation and ill treatment of the indigenous and African slaves continued. However, the United States of the thirteen colonies flourished financially though they did not inherit a cultural bond between and among the descendants of Britain, Spain, Netherlands and Sweden, who occupied the land initially and other settlers of European origin, who came later, leading to the establishment of a mixed culture that symbolised more of capital gains rather than concern for others, which their countries of origin practiced for generations.

The American Revolution gained freedom to the thirteen colonies. Yet, it is interesting to note that their national anthem was ‘God Save the King’. It is equally interesting and paradoxical to note that several millions of people in the United States, in all fifty states, recently went on to the streets to demonstrate, in more than three thousand events, marching with placards and chanting slogans ‘No Kings’. They were protesting against executive overreach which continued to happen for the last two hundred and fifty years, especially during the last one year.

Michael Kammen, 1936 to 2013, American social scientist, Pulitzer Prize winning author, has written plenty about the evolution of American culture. He refers to the mass culture, consumer driven and sweatshop, outside worker centric, life that has influenced American attitude and consequential behaviour. Similarly, Stuart Hall, considered the founding father of studies in American sociology, refers to the common attitudes of the Americans which are products of mixed culture, that lacks the specific base upon which ancient civilisations are built. Hugh Davis Graham, in his Collision Course, also refers to the lack of a common heritage that the common American, including the leaders, suffers from. Most social scientists, thus, point out the lack of support from the heritage of ancient civilisations as the condemnable representation of American responses. Equally important is to note that people from other countries who have come as ‘labourers’, including the effective scientists, did not bring with them sufficient culture or get any opportunity to influence even if they brought, because of the way the typical American looked at the immigrants.

There is immediate relevance to refer to Sigmund Freud, the Australian Neurologist and Carl Jung, the psychologist from Switzerland, the latter more, and the theory on the Collective Consciousness, which is a part of the consciousness of every individual that one inherits and does not come from any learning. Carl Jung particularly believed in universal symbols called ‘archtypes’ that come from the collective consciousness. Beneath every man’s conscious awareness lies a vast unconscious world containing one’s hidden fears, desires, dreams and deeper aspects of the personality. What one researcher has to understand is the collective consciousness of a typical American who functions on the borders of violence that the Europeans brought with them and established the colonies through brutalising of the indigenous people and the African slaves. That violence is a part of the collective unconscious of the descendants of the Spaniards, Swedish, Dutch and English cannot avoid its wide expressions.

A close analysis of the American military history reveals a consistent pattern in the first and second world war, the Vietnam and Afghan wars, the Iraqi and Libyan onslaughts, the interventions in Nicaragua and Chile, and more recently in Venezuela and Iran: The American missile on a school in Iran which killed one hundred and sixty children, at the start of the present war itself, are classic examples of the expression of cruelty emerging from the collective unconscious of Americans led by men like George Bush and Donald Trump. Probably they will never learn unless the rest of the world teaches them.

A justification of the title of the article is essential. That they have HEREDITY of violence is described already. America is the richest country in the world, still they want to become richer by Making America Great Again. Their GREED is easily detectable, when one understands that most of the Venezuelan oil companies were taken over by US companies, within a few days of subduing Venezuela. That the present president wants to hike tariffs citing one reason or the other, he makes it a sword in his hand to brandish, is an excellent example of how cheaply America wants to fill its exchequer.

They are an aggressive nation and their president represents this aggression not only by attacking other countries but also using uncivil language against the enemy. The AGGRESSION is easily noticeable from the fact that their attacks were not only sudden but also without any notice to the attacked. Worse still is the fact that they aimed at destroying a country and its people in plenty and in thousands.

American attacks on other countries, till now, have all been illegal. They do not approach the United Nations ever before the attack. There are no proper reasons given to the attacked, nor do they give time for the attacked to make changes to avoid the attack. They do not believe in mediation before such attacks. All the destruction and killing of people, especially children, are against international laws. Therefore, in every attack that America did, there is ILLEGALITY.

To cap it all, IMMORALITY is also involved. Killing one hundred and sixty defenceless children on the first day of the attack on Iran itself is immoral. UN charter prescribes norms for any war and killing children is an immoral act and a punishable war crime. America has done it several times and supported and guided its ally to perform similar acts. It is inexcusable immorality to support another country in killing innocent children or women.

It is understandable why a progressed nation, particularly with plenty of scientific discoveries, should behave in a foolish way. The president of the United States represents the worst of FOOLISHNESS from the way he takes decisions for the conduct of the war. The fact that he had been changing his threats from time to time and making statements that his enemy has been decimated, even when he had been the loser, exhibits the type of foolishness noticeable among buffoons. In fact, he does not represent the people of the US which was sending astronauts to the moon, when he was threatening and compromising them from time to time in the most foolish way. More importantly, it is the loud mouth declarations of a democratically elected political leader, who is the most powerful man in the most powerful country that sounds easily detectably foolish that disappoints the world.