Donald Trump As the Public Face of Empire

Empire is arrogant. Empire is hubristic. Empire is superior. Empire always teaches its people that they are the best and all other peoples of the world are inferior. The world often turns around empire because empire is the center. Empire gives meaning to all things and all things derive their meanings because they are connected to empire. Without empire there would be nothing, literally, because everything that has existed before, and that will come after, have been inferior. That is why it is often assumed that there can only be chaos after empire.  Thus, empire has a responsibility, nay, the duty, to stave chaos from the universe. All the children of empire are taught, from kindergarten to college, to see themselves as the very center of the universe. They should be bold, aggressive, and never admit of not knowing because it is always in the nature of empire to know even when it does not know. In fact, the very fact of claiming knowledge when one does not know is the mark of knowledge. Feigning knowledge is how knowledge is achieved. Empire never backs down, whether it is right or wrong! In fact, empire can never be wrong. It can only think differently of the same thing, but always from the superior position because authentic human being is superior, as Nietzsche rightly saw. The superiority of empire is often simply stated rather than argued and it is often hyperbolized and based on caricatures of the other. In fact, empire hardly knows the other because anthropological studies are often based on the assumption of empire's superiority. From the perspective of empire, the other is often to be pitied because they are often pale imitations of authentic humanity. Empire does not study the other to know the other but only to know how they are superior to the other.

All this has been the spectacle that is Donald Trump. He is the public face of empire, manifesting all what empire has to teach its people. What The Donald is doing is that he is revealing the assumptions on which empire is built to be arrogant and inhumane. As the public face of the education that empire provides its people, he is not doing anything extra-ordinary.

While I was till in grade school in Cameroon, I studied the geography and history of Europe, America, and Asia. I knew about the Communist Revolution in China more than I knew about the liberation struggle in Cameroon. I knew about the weather of the Alps more than I knew about the weather of the village where I lived. All this because we lived on the periphery of various empires. When I came to America, I began to find out that many Americans knew little or nothing about Cameroon. They only know, without a doubt, that they are the greatest nation the world has ever seen. That is the kind of education that has built Donald Trump, the greatest human being the world has ever known. He is an empire made up of just one human being - a kind of hyperbolized empire, if you like. The man has learned his lessons well.