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[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/619703/](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/619703/) >"The reporter Jonathan Katz explains how he wrestled with the sins of U.S. interventions abroad—and what to call them."
[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/619703/](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/619703/) >"The reporter Jonathan Katz explains how he wrestled with the sins of U.S. interventions abroad—and what to call them."
There’s a tension worth digging at here between the individual and the system that I think Katz has a tough time clearing up, but overall worthwhile read. Like, to say that the historical suppression/cultural repression we see in the US is an individual problem and not the doing of some closed-door conspiracy only allows Katz to do these weird roundabout justifications for the imperial project instead of condemning it as a whole. It lets him say, “yeah, imperialism bad, government violent,” but put his desire to not want to “look crazy” on an even field with people that have the most power. Things are allowed to be conspiratorial... they are often conspired, by people, in rooms. That’s not the crazy part. Katz is a /rugged individualist/ at the end of the day (you can really tell by the ‘huddled masses’ anecdote at the end) and it’s holding him back. It’s holding all of us back!
There’s a tension worth digging at here between the individual and the system that I think Katz has a tough time clearing up, but overall worthwhile read. Like, to say that the historical suppression/cultural repression we see in the US is an individual problem and not the doing of some closed-door conspiracy only allows Katz to do these weird roundabout justifications for the imperial project instead of condemning it as a whole. It lets him say, “yeah, imperialism bad, government violent,” but put his desire to not want to “look crazy” on an even field with people that have the most power. Things are allowed to be conspiratorial... they are often conspired, by people, in rooms. That’s not the crazy part. Katz is a /rugged individualist/ at the end of the day (you can really tell by the ‘huddled masses’ anecdote at the end) and it’s holding him back. It’s holding all of us back!
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