Western Indigestion

What gives the West Indigestion? There are many things the West has eaten which trouble the imperial stomach. Mainly, other countries and cultures. Without understanding the narratives which make up the history of a country, we employ our considerable power to pursuade that country to join our great cause: Freedom, Liberty and Prosperity etc. etc. However, because we don't care to do our homework, when those countries (Turkey, Pakistan, India, Russia for starters) dabble in capitalism/democracy they bring with them their history of power struggles, national obsessions, cults, feuds, superstitions, tyrants, biases, chauvinism, royal and divine status, extremeist and libertines etc. So when they arrive on the stage we are aghast, (urp! trouble in the tummy) that they are so barbarous. Without being an apologist, one must realize that their narratives are all still firing on all cylinders and that their dabblings with western concepts is but one new narrative in the national mind. The smart money already left the country and immigrated to the west a long time ago. So whoever is left is part and parcel of the national collective memory. And guess what? They will never give it up. Jamaicans will be Jamaicans, French the French and Iraquis the Iraquis. It will always be a huge mess. Peace will only exist in novels and poetry.