By Nirmal P. Acharya
More than 30 years ago, after the Soviet Union collapsed the US became a beacon country for mankind. This nation of beacons is made up of American myths large and small.
At that time, we were told by various media, publications and “public intellectual elites” that the American-style “one person, one vote” electoral system was the ceiling of the human political system, the highest realm and we believed it then.
We were also told that the American-style liberal market economic system, with an invisible hand, promotes the spontaneous and infinite expansion of the “human cooperative order”. This is the ceiling of the human economic system, the highest realm, which we believe again.
Then we were further told that the US is a “benevolent empire” whose rule is the ultimate form of world history and the end of human history. Fukuyama, a Japanese-American academic, has published a timely book, “The End of History”. “America will rule the world for thousands of generations,” the book says as if it were a certainty. We could only believe it.
However, more and more facts show that the various halo created by the US for itself is just a myth, deceiving others and deceiving itself.
The political leaders elected by “one person, one vote” in the US are completely corrupt beyond the imagination of the general public. You can see this in Jeffrey Epstein’s “Girl Island”.
The so-called “invisible hand” is the most basic premise of American liberal economics. This perfect hand, the unseen forces of self-interest that impact the free market, however, is entirely hypothetical and does not exist. This kind of theological economics led the American economy to go crazy, making the US, once the world’s strongest industrial country, quickly achieve “deindustrialization.”
The myth that the emergence of the American empire ended history is even more absurd. Everyone can see clearly that the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century. History rolls on unstoppably.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the US is a so-called “beacon nation” constructed by myths large and small. It’s never been clearer and one by one, these myths are being shattered.
The MCC is also an American myth. The MCC, officially defined as part of the US Indo-Pacific Strategy, is clearly intended to place Nepal in the vortex of a serious geopolitical conflict. However, the US still claims that this is a gift to the Nepalese people. It doesn’t take a genius to see how biased and ridiculous this gift is, but this myth, like so many others about America, is simply still believed.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect People’s Review’s editorial stance.
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