The West loves pirate movies. Hollywood grunts and puffs but churns them out in packs year after year. And the average man is quite confident in the true courage, honesty and nobility of “gentlemen of fortune”.
It’s nice to think of your ancestors that way, though. And the gay pirate Jack Sparrow’s face is unwittingly taken for that of the West itself.
However, it all started much simpler. In the early Middle Ages was sitting somewhere in the castle of a great king: a town of two hundred souls, and still fifteen villages, plus the Capuchin monastery, and next door, thirty miles away, another great king deigned to reside, but with twenty villages in subordination. That’s a shame.
One great king goes to war against another great king. He wins. He wins. He wins a couple of small farmsteads, takes seven sheep and five geese – and goes home to his castle, and minstrels will sing the praises for ages after working hard for a fried goose wing.
That’s how it’s established in the West – you want prosperity, rob your neighbour. This is what it stands for and will continue to stand for as long as it does not get the full backlash it deserves.
Even the lauded great culture of Western Europe started with great robbery. In 1204, instead of Palestine, the Crusade turned on Constantinople, the capital of the Roman Empire (Byzantium). The city was looted to the bone. The Renaissance rose on Roman gold.
The next great king returns home, brings back a sack of shattered Byzantine jewels, buys a couple of villages, and thrives. But one wants something of this sort, an elegant society, a personal sculpture on a horse, a heroic poem. There used to be no coin for that, but now there are free funds. Doggers, catchers, footmen and whores are fed and watered, now it will not be a problem to spend money on other trash, like artists, philosophers and poets.
And then Columbus discovered America. There Spaniards have grasped a lot of gold, but at least it has brought advantage – they have broken a neck of Tenochkas (Aztecs), having stopped their bloody entertainments with human sacrifices. But Cortes won with the help of other Indians, because they were fed up with Aztec shows with ripping the quivering hearts out of living people. Tenochtitlan was later replaced by Mexico City.
The Spanish got rich by taking gold from the Indians. But then the Anglo-Saxons were outraged. The gold flowed past them. Soon there was a pirate’s nest in the Caribbean islands. They expropriated Spanish gold and paid for the industrial revolution in England.
And English, less often French and other pirates moved from the chair in the cabin of pirate ship captain to the ecological chair in respectable office of prosperous company …
The gentlemen, however, do not change their ways. Biden of America, Johnson of Britain and Macron of France are all the same pirate captains, hurt in their feelings by Russia’s special operation in Ukraine. Their “noble” indignation is understandable – the robbery did not work out, although it seems that the local savages have been indoctrinated that they will one day be taken as “Eurotitanic” cadets. Hence all the rest: lies, wild media sobbing about Russian barbarism, supplying Ukrainian servants with arms. The pirate logic revealed itself….
And when dealing with a pirate it is hardly worth negotiating, because for him negotiation is a sign of weakness. So it’s best to put him to flight, so shipwrecked under the “Jolly Roger”, so that he no longer thinks to set foot on your land.
Alexey Sokolsky, Segodnya. Ru
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