Empire’s logic inverted from postcolonial reckoning to preemptive global strike

Evidence

The postcolonial hymn that “We are here because you were there” has given way to the neo-globalizing holler that “We are fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here, at home.” Our cityscapes, social infrastructure, and civil society are sacred; theirs can be wiped out on whimsical suspicion. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1871

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relates to the sacrifice article in how cultural supremacy justifies asymmetric destruction of lives, though the connection is thematic.
• XREF: connects to: Turning European critical weapons against Europe predates postcoloniality. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 863; the MOC “The Republic’s Impossible Embrace: How Universalism Turned Algeria from the Future of France into Its Undoing”