White Glory

History as an Antidote to Idiocracy

Morning Comrades.

A lesson in History today - and before you shut off, because, urgh weird names and a bunch of dates- not to worry, there will be very little of that. As you may have noticed, I love history, much more than philosophy even though you cannot separate the two but that’s another talk for a future date. I was fortunate to have had wonderful educators in the field since High School - shout out to David Norris who does read this and used to be my History teacher during that time, he truly understood what it meant to teach - and later on during my time at University. To the above point, my Philosophy profs were Historians and Economists respectively and that most definitely helped. This led to several history degrees at various levels, predominately early European / Arabic History as well as a slew of other areas of interest, but as they say, these degree only mean that you can speak the man’s language and appeased them in their formidable power structure of elitism.

I won’t bore you with the usual snobby rubbish of “if you don’t know your history” yaddayadda as that’s just the usual upper class condescending bullshit that keeps us peasants out of their ivory towers ( sorry lads ) but I will share some history today that pertains deeply to a lot of the bullshit podcast bro narrative that is wilfully false and is a massive part of the celebrated anti-intellectualism these days, which in part results in the brain rot of nationalism, racism and woeful love affair with fascism. I’ll go a step further and say that this constructed idea of history here in the West sits at the heart, along a few other noteworthy psychological deficiencies, of the brutally violent and yet revolting 2-dimensional existence of most men sprouting bullshit on every available media channel to them. The mere thought of these wasteoids just made me gag, and not in a good way.

History then, specifically, the Myth of European, White, Supremacy, a construct most of us could agree to be a root cause of, well, take a look around and scream if you like. The belief in European—and later American—supremacy is not an organic historical truth but an ideological construct forged to justify centuries of violence, extraction, and domination. This myth serves two primary functions: externally, it moralises the exploitation of the Global South, presenting colonial and imperialist plunder as a civilising mission; internally, it obfuscates the economic interests of the ruling class by promoting a racialised hierarchy that pits the working class against exploited peoples rather than against their true oppressors. Through historical revisionism, religious doctrine, and philosophical distortions, European elites crafted a narrative that erased the contributions of non-European civilisations while simultaneously using violence to extract their wealth. As Walter Rodney asserts, “Europe underdeveloped Africa” not as an accident of history, but through a deliberate, systemic process of economic and political domination (Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, 1972). The same can be said of the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East, whose resources, labor, and intellectual achievements were subsumed into Europe’s self-mythology.

Let’s get into some actual History and busting some knuckle heads for all your construed machismo of white male greatness was made up in a boardroom in Midtown to sell you cigarettes, cars and shit beer, and has nothing to do with History.