Sri Lanka, since falling under IMF administration, is prone to colonization again. Not colonizers coming here, per se (besides 'Israelis' coming to play) but us becoming colonizers, indentured servants and slaves. There was huge migration out of Sri Lanka during the financial crisis, and it hasn't abated. You can see it in the advertisements, which are for indentured servitude (foreign education) and outright slavery (kafala). I feel sad when I see all the ads for migration, but who am I to say? I came up (if you can call it that) the same way. But why does it have to be this way? We go from the Portuguese to the Dutch to the British to the Americans, getting sickier food and more mindsick each iteration. That's why I call it one White Empire. What's the difference, to us on the bottom?

When I drive around recrumbling Colombo, it reminds me of Blade Runner. That scene where the blimp reads “A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, the chance to begin again…” That's what all the ads for foreign education and employment look like to me. These people ruined our world and now need our labor to serve them in the ruins. That's the basic deal of modern mass migration, destroy the baseline and make people line up to debase themselves. This isn't new, Australia was colonized by making England poor, making being poor a crime, and driving paupers to become persecutors elsewhere. Europeanism is a trauma site, abuse that begets abusers, across continents and generations.

I see Sri Lankans (or Eelamists) that left earlier, regretting what they left. People post videos of visits saying the life we left behind. I see these young people getting further and further away, until the next generation dissipates into Whiteness. It's really genocide another way. Different cultures disappear and become a paste of Whiteness. The colonized become colonizers, communities become consumers, families get nuked, social identities get shredded into ID cards and credit scores. People like us end up policing people like us, look at who's manning the immigration lines. It's recent immigrants. WTF.

Perhaps you don't see how predatory this idea of a better life is. How carnivorous and then cannibalistic. It's entirely predicated on making life worse elsewhere, and thus making cold and/or hostile places appealing. This is not a natural feeling, to leave your home and people, you have to apply a liberal beating. And then the people beat themselves for generations, calling it depression when in fact it's a natural reaction to dispossession. I think of the psychology I studied. The intro courses were all rat torture, rats separated from their families, communities, and land, and given mazes to run through. That's the basis of Western psychology and Western society. Those rats will press a lever endlessly to get cocaine because they're in jail. But put those rats in health communities and they'll refrain. That's what immigration does to people, it strips them from themselves (the plural nature of being) and makes them into cogs in a machine. And they call this a better life. It's the death of the social being, of that which makes life worth living.

Yet people looking for a better life for their children will do it, if you make things bad enough for the children. This is the carrot and stick model of imperialism. People will abandon their language, they will pay for foreign education (indentured servitude), they will become slaves (illegal immigrants or kafala), they'll do anything for the next generation, even if it leads to degeneration. Your culture becomes a cookbook on the shelf and a few muttered words at bedtime.

People will live thousands of miles away from their children and then die alone for the privilege. It makes sense at the individual level, though it's a war crime in the aggregate. That's the end (purpose) of this immigration thing. It breaks families, it breaks communities, it breaks connection to the land, all to remake people into interchangeable cogs in a machine. That was always the ploy of colonialism, but through more sophisticated capitalization, the slaves now march themselves in. The colonized become colonizers. It's a crime scene.

How dare White people complain about immigrants bringing crime? The crime is bringing the immigrants. Do you think people want to leave the places you vacation, to come to your strip mall devastation? How dare these lazy louts complain about the people taking care of their elders and children and feeding them, things that they should do culturally, if they had one? These messed up societies need to mess up our countries so we can clean up the mess in theirs. I also oppose immigration, but from the other end. Just muttering in Sri Lanka. The problem is not immigrants ruining White countries. It's this degenerate, decaying Empire ruining everybody else. I think about this as I drive around the ruins of my own collapsed country, thinking about what could have been.

Just yesterday I saw a beggar sleeping outside a car dealership. Every day I see the elders sweeping the streets. These people are physically darker and smaller than me, years of malnutrition and being out in the heat. When I was young I thought the future wouldn't be like this, but here we are, following endless reboots of IMF programs, which keep us in bankruptcy. They represent the foreign bondholders (re: colonizers), they never recommend industrialization or investment, just punishment for the poor and more debt. The colonizers still keep us from developing our own education systems, our own production, our own economy, and the compradors go along with it for a few trinkets and junkets. I can't even blame them after a point. Where's our own dignity? What am I doing?

People (like me) that live in the ‘air condition’ step coolly between car and cafe, barely living in the place they're in, consuming foreign media, foreign products, though we're still just coolies to them. The rich get richer and effectively live abroad already. Spending half a working man's salary on sourdough and matcha tea. Our entire government is craven to this vacant bourgeoisie for some reason. It is of course not us but the foreign capital that courses through us. The airport class across continents is the vanguard of Vanguard, the bedrock of Blackrock, formerly called compradors and still compromising with colonialism. It is, as my historical thesis goes, same shit, different day.