A Letter from an Idealist to Another
Be The Last Human and the First one!
A Letter from an Idealist to Another
Hi, my dear, dear friend,
I must tell you! I found this new drug, the most amazing drug you can have! You take it, and your life passes from darkness to light.
Let me tell you: imagine you have bad news, a letter that says your parents have just died unexpectedly. Imagine the instantaneous descent to hell.
In three seconds your entire being is engulfed in the shadows of despair; your world changes into fog, and you don’t know what to do, to run, or to cry. What do you do first in that case?
A paralysis stops you straight, and a weakness akin to death is sucking all your energy instantly. You cannot walk, you cannot speak, you cannot think; everything is numb, but somehow you are conscious of reality as though through a clear rock glass.
Then, one minute later, you realize! The names of the deceased are not correct! The addressee is not you! Imagine!
Your heart jumps from the bottom of hell directly to heaven, and you immediately want to hug somebody. You rush instantly to see your parents to check if it’s true! Nothing happened, but for you it is as if they have been resuscitated from death; amazing relief and gratitude pour into your heart!
Imagine a pill that gives you this sensation every second, every minute, every day from sunrise to sunset, and your dreams are also full of happiness and devotion. You’re stronger than ever, happier than ever; your life is a heaven on earth, and it seems never-ending.
Imagine, my friend! Only one pill, and actually, this pill is absolutely harmless for the body; it’s a pill like an elixir from the gods. You take it and your life changes instantly, like when your parents are resuscitated from death.
This pill has a secret, a secret I will tell you, my friend, because I want you, if you are interested, to take it. I’ll tell you!
Actually, this letter is charged with this pill. The secret is the following: The pill is… is… invisible!
You heard it right! Shhht! Keep it secret! This pill is invisible; actually, it is a formula, an idea, my friend! The biggest drug that will change your life and the lives of your fellows is an idea*!!!*
I’ll give it to you right away, because I’m sure you would like to take the miraculous pill right now! Imagine! After it, you will reach heaven!
So the real name of the pill, the secret name, is: “Utopia.” Utopia is heaven on earth, my friend. Many, many civilizations took it across the ages.
Plato, in his Republic, first concocted the pill; he gave the perfect recipe for heaven, a new society designed from first principles.
Then the big messianic age: 2,000 years ago we began to create, or hope and aspire for, the Garden of Eden on earth. Then, in the 1500s, Thomas More coined the definitive name for this drug: “utopia.”
Let me explain what the “utopia” idea will do to you: You’ll search for and put all your hope in an idealistic future land… oh… the promised land, with so many flavors: Canaan, Jannah, the New World of Columbus, the Spanish Requerimiento (discovery), the German Herero and Namaqua, New England, New World promised land, the terra nullius of Australia, the Afrikaner South Africa, the scientific socialism building a new world, the Cape to Cairo of the British Africa as belonging to the “finest race.” All these people took the famous “utopia” drug!
I mentioned that the pill is harmless to your body, absolutely true, while I may say and recognize it’s not exactly true for the bodies of the non-humans you may encounter! Ha Ha Ha! Lol!
Their lives of UTOPIA brotherhood began immediately to improve, energy and collaboration, unknown powers and resources, all that to build heaven on earth, a heaven pure, just, harmonious, without any dirtiness… my friend! I tell you! This is the most potent drug ever invented!
Let me give you the recipe: idealism + realism.
The idealism part is the theory, the wishes for an ideal land, an ideal man, a beacon of virtue, the white eagle, the proud white angel of light! But to implement it, you have to be a realist and do your best, like mowing your lawn, removing the garbage. You have to have standards; you cannot build a new world without a new man!
And who is the new man? Of course you and those of your same superior race, beliefs, and tongue, my friend! You and those of the “fine race,” as the English used to say. We must have standards of quality that we alone can pass and be sure to make everyone understand that we are exceptional; we utopists are the best breed of humanity, because we took the pill and became special!
If another does not meet the standard, he is surely not worthy to be called human; he cannot be part of our world; he has to go somewhere else. And where? All land belongs, of course, to us, so we will have to put in place standards and procedures for cleansing our group from parasites.
We have to prune our tree from the useless branches, my friend. This will take a lot of work, but now, with new pruning machines and new vacuums, it should not be such a laborious task as in the past… imagine the Spanish Empire, poor workers with primitive tools, what difficulty and length they had to go to in order to reach their cleanliness goal…
Then, of course, not only will we have to prune, but to define the definitive place of the promised land. You see, every great friend who took the pill had a promised land:
USA Puritans had a covenant with God and went to North America to build the New Israel in the American Wilderness; they spread democracy and Christianity and ejected hundreds of Native American nations, because this land was promised to them, and they just got rid of the “wilderness.”
Canada built its promised land “A mari usque ad mare” from Psalm 72:8, “He shall have dominion also from sea to sea.” This framed the nation’s expansion as a biblical mandate. The concept of “Canada” itself was built on the idea of settling a vast, “empty” land to create a new British society. Indeed, they achieved it; now there are still pockets of wildlings, but it’s an infection well controlled by the government. This is Canada, a promised land from the Bible. As you see, my friend, the Bible has plenty of promised lands; it’s like a land registry. May you find your own contract in the saintly archive!
The British did not need a psalm from the Bible to show them their promised land; they found terra nullius: Australia (“land belonging to no one”), the land unowned and uncultivated, despite the lies about the presence of Aboriginal peoples for over 60,000 years, pure foolishness! The British were there first! As they say!
Later, the idea of Australia as the “Lucky Country” for hardworking white settlers showed that it was indeed empty, how would one argue otherwise against official evidence! So, as you see, some get luckier than others, my friend; if you take the pill and believe, actually, not believe, you’re certain, you will also be lucky, as the British were!
Another people who got lucky were the Afrikaners, who conquered South Africa. Afrikaners explicitly modeled their 19th-century Great Trek on the Biblical Exodus. They saw themselves as the “chosen people” fleeing British oppression (the Pharaoh) to establish a new covenant with God in the interior. Their victory at the Battle of Blood River was seen as divine intervention. These lucky people must have a special pass with God, such miracles! God is the best! Yeah!
Cecil Rhodes also had a divine mission. Cecil Rhodes embodied the blend of racial superiority and divine mission, believing the British were “the finest race in the world,” destined to occupy and rule the globe.
Then we can still mention the extension of the French in Algeria, where the lands were promised to poor Europeans coming to have a “mission civilisatrice” for the local Algerian people, greatly in need of their civilization. Lucky Algerians!
Not to forget the Spaniards’ and Portuguese Reconquista: the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Americas was the continuation of the European Reconquista, 10,000 kilometres away but the same land extension if we consider the under-ocean earth plaque, the centuries-long war to reclaim Iberia from Muslim rule. The Pope’s “Doctrine of Discovery” granted them the divine right to claim lands of non-Christian peoples.
They saw themselves as bringing the “True Faith” to pagan peoples in a new promised land of immense wealth. The pagans needed the “true faith,” lucky redemption from the Spanish misericordia God, or ejection. And they did! These brainless pagans are no more; many preferred death to conversion, what a bunch of savages, and some lucky, wiser pagans became Christians! Amazing achievement!
And then, my friend, there are probably other examples I may have forgotten here; please tell me if I forgot something, I will try to address it; maybe you can find living examples of the people who took the “utopia” pill, please take notes! Study their project to build your own, now that you took the pill!
You will recognize them by their group cohesion and the force they put into purification of their tree, not mingling with subhumans or giving them any rights. Animals have no rights, as you and I so cheerfully agree on!
You will see that either they may be lucky to find barren lands that may be promised to them by the emptiness itself, first to find, first to own, like a divine jackpot, or they find lines in the Holy Bible that designate them as the rightful proprietors of the promised lands they may find, and then their conquest is not only righteous legally speaking but well pleasing to God, as His will is done on the earth as He decided in heavens and transmitted to us by the wise who put His word down in the Holy Scripture.
You will see that they are highly civilized, organized, disciplined, work, work, work, for more riches every day—money, houses, conveniences, riches—not like the wildlings they may encounter who probably live their life more like leisure than obligation, such a waste of time to have a non-industrious life!
You will also see they have a grandiose, beautiful project in mind: the idealistic pill of UTOPIA. This is the burning sun that burned any contradiction or question in their mind about the justice of their project! It comes from the Sun! It comes from God Himself, so of course, any difficulty to get rid of the wildlings’ world must know no hesitation!
Unfortunately, they look like us, but just in appearance; like a poisonous mushroom, it may look the same, but they are not like us, the UTOPIA citizens, the superior blend of man; in reality they are animals that we must either control or clean.
UTOPIA! How this word sounds right to me! Saintly! Justly! We, the just and nobles of the world, living in our purified space! Mono-belief, mono-culture, mono-dogma, mono-system, mono-perfection, this is the way!
May the God of our ancestors guide you to UTOPIA as He did for them!
AAAh, my friend, that was the secret I wanted to tell you,
Yours truly, ANewMan F. Racist,
from Aracist to Another racist, all my sympathy!
Disclaimer: A Note on Content and Intent
This text is a work of dark satire and rhetorical critique.
The views expressed by the fictional letter writer, “Anewman F(uc*ing) Racist,” include explicit advocacy for racism and prejudice.
The character is intentionally portrayed as a hateful, prejudiced person whose ideology of “cleansing” is the object of this critique. These views do not reflect the views of the author of this piece.
This work is intended as an antithesis and a deliberate examination of how utopian and messianic rhetoric have historically been corrupted to rationalize the most horrific colonial and supremacist atrocities. Its sole purpose is to provoke disgust and ultimately expose and condemn racism, antisemitism, and all forms of colonial violence.
The sole purpose of this work is to expose and condemn racism, genocide, and colonial violence, not to endorse them in any form.
Of course. Here is an expanded and detailed list that includes direct orders, quotations, and a more specific enumeration of the affected tribes and peoples.
Historical Context for Referenced Colonial Utopias
ESTIMATED DEATH TOLL OF COLONIALISM 15th - Early 20th Century Note: All figures represent consolidated scholarly estimates. The catastrophic demographic collapse resulted from colonial policies, violence, and introduced diseases, enabled by utopian ideologies that justified displacement and destruction of indigenous populations.
1. Spanish Conquest of the Americas & the Requerimiento (1493 onwards)
Perpetrators: Spanish Crown (Ferdinand II, Isabella I, Charles V), conquistadors (Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro), and colonists.
Justification: The Papal Bull Inter Caetera (1493) granted Spain “full and free power, authority, and jurisdiction” over all lands not inhabited by Christians. The Requerimiento (The Requirement, 1513) was a legalistic document read in Spanish to the empty jungle or uncomprehending natives, demanding they submit to the Church and Crown. Non-compliance justified “war against you… to subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and Their Highnesses… we shall take you and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them… we shall take away your goods, and shall do all the harm and damage that we can…”
Victims & Estimated Deaths:
Taíno of Hispaniola: Pre-contact population estimated at 250,000–1,000,000. By 1548, a Spanish census recorded fewer than 500, a virtual extermination due to massacre, slavery, and disease.
Peoples of Mexico (Aztec, Tlaxcalan, Purepecha, etc.): Pre-contact population ~15–25 million. By 1600, reduced to ~1–2 million. During the Siege of Tenochtitlan (1521), approximately 240,000 Aztecs were killed. Bartolomé de las Casas wrote of conquistadors testing their swords by slicing Indigenous people in half with a single blow.
Peoples of Peru (Inca, Chachapoya, etc.): Pre-contact population ~5–9 million. By 1620, reduced to ~600,000. The Massacre of Cajamarca saw thousands of unarmed Incas slaughtered to capture Emperor Atahualpa.
2. German Herero and Namaqua Genocide (1904–1908)
Perpetrators: German Empire, General Lothar von Trotha.
Justification & Direct Orders: General von Trotha’s Extermination Order (Vernichtungsbefehl), October 2, 1904:
“I, the Great General of the German soldiers, address this letter to the Herero people… The Herero people will have to leave the country. Otherwise, I shall force them to do so by means of guns. Within the German borders, every Herero, with or without a rifle, with or without cattle, will be shot. I will no longer accommodate women and children. I will drive them back to their people or I will let them be shot at.”
Victims & Estimated Deaths:
Herero: Pre-war population ~80,000. Death toll ~65,000 (about 80%). Survivors were driven into the Omaheke Desert to die of thirst.
Nama (Namaqua): Pre-war population ~20,000. Death toll ~10,000 (about 50%). Those captured were sent to concentration camps like Shark Island, where death rates reached ~80%.
3. New England Puritans (1620 onwards)
Perpetrators: English Puritan settlers and their military forces.
Justification: Governor John Winthrop’s sermon “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630) declared the colony a “City upon a Hill.” In the Pequot War (1636–1638), the colonists saw the Pequot as irredeemable “savages.” Captain John Mason, who led the attack on the Pequot fort at Mystic, wrote:
“We must Burn them; … such a dreadful Terror did the Almighty let fall upon their Spirits, that they would flee from us and run into the very Flames… Thus did the Lord judge among the Heathen, filling the Place with Dead Bodies.”
Victims & Estimated Deaths:
Pequot Tribe: The Mystic Massacre (1637) killed approximately 400–700 Pequot men, women, and children, leading to the near-extermination of the tribe. The subsequent Treaty of Hartford (1638) outlawed the very name “Pequot.”
Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc, etc.: In King Philip’s War (1675–1678), an estimated ~3,000 Native Americans were killed (about 40% of their population). The powerful Narragansett were almost wiped out in the Great Swamp Fight (1675), with hundreds of non-combatants killed.
4. Canada & “A Mari Usque ad Mare” (1867 onwards)
Perpetrators: The governments of Great Britain and Canada.
Justification & Direct Orders: The Indian Act (1876) was a legal framework for cultural genocide. The policy of the residential school system was “to kill the Indian in the child.” Duncan Campbell Scott, Superintendent of Indian Affairs (1920), stated:
“I want to get rid of the Indian problem… Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian question, and no Indian Department.”
Victims & Estimated Deaths:
First Nations, Métis, and Inuit: No single death toll, but systemic destruction was enacted.
Indian Residential School System (1880s–1990s): Over 150,000 children were forcibly removed. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission documented 3,200–6,000+ confirmed deaths, noting the actual number is likely much higher, from disease (TB), malnutrition, abuse, and neglect.
Forced Starvation: Policies like the destruction of the Plains Bison (from ~30 million to near extinction) were deliberate strategies to subdue and starve nations such as the Cree, Blackfoot, and Assiniboine (Nakoda), forcing them onto reserves.
5. British Australia & Terra Nullius (1788 onwards)
Perpetrators: British Empire, colonial governors, and settlers.
Justification: The legal doctrine of terra nullius (“land belonging to no one”). The Black War in Tasmania saw Governor George Arthur declare martial law in 1828, effectively sanctioning the killing of Aboriginal people on sight.
Victims & Estimated Deaths:
Aboriginal Tasmanians (Palawa): Pre-contact population ~3,000–7,000. By the 1830s, through a campaign of hunting, massacre, and disease, fewer than 300 remained. The Black War and the subsequent Black Line military operation aimed at their extermination.
Mainland Aboriginal Nations (e.g., Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi, Noongar, Yolngu): Pre-contact population estimated at 300,000–1,000,000. By the 1920s, it fell to around 60,000. The Myall Creek massacre (1838) saw 28 unarmed Wirrayaraay people murdered. The Coniston massacre (1928) saw over 60 Warlpiri, Anmatyerre, and Kaytetye people killed.
6. Afrikaner Great Trek & the Battle of Blood River (1830s–1840s)
Perpetrators: Voortrekkers (Afrikaner colonists).
Justification: A covenant made with God before the Battle of Blood River (1838). Voortrekker leader Sarel Cilliers prayed:
“My God, I promise You that if You will protect us and give the enemy into our hand, I shall build a church to Your honor… and that we shall keep this day and date every year as a day of thanksgiving… and that we shall tell our children that they must share in this with us.”
Victims & Estimated Deaths:
Zulu Kingdom: At the Battle of Blood River (1838), an estimated ~3,000 Zulu warriors were killed by Voortrekker gunfire and cannon, with three Voortrekkers wounded. This was part of a larger conflict over land and sovereignty that displaced and killed thousands of Zulu and Ndebele people.
7. Cecil Rhodes & “Cape to Cairo” (1890s)
Perpetrators: Cecil Rhodes and his British South Africa Company (BSAC).
Justification & Direct Quotations: Rhodes stated:
“I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race… If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is to paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible.”
Victims & Estimated Deaths:
Ndebele (Matabele) and Shona Peoples: During the First Matabele War (1893), the BSAC used Maxim guns to massacre thousands of Ndebele warriors. In the Second Matabele War / First Chimurenga (1896–1897), an estimated ~50,000 Ndebele and Shona were killed. Rhodes’s forces implemented a scorched-earth policy, destroying crops and villages to starve the population into submission.
8. French Algeria & “Mission Civilisatrice” (1830–1962)
Perpetrators: French Empire and army.
Justification: The “civilizing mission.” General Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, who led the conquest, advocated for razzias (scorched-earth raids) to destroy the Algerian population’s will to resist.
Victims & Estimated Deaths:
Algerian Arab and Berber Population: The initial conquest (1830–1870) was devastating. In 1845, during the French conquest of Algeria, Colonel Aimable Pélissier suffocated over 1,000 Ouled Riah tribespeople, including women and children, by smoking them out of the caves where they had taken refuge. The Algerian population fell from an estimated 3–5 million in 1830 to about 2.5 million by 1872. During the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962), estimates of Algerian deaths range from ~300,000 to ~1,000,000.
The Colonization of the United States: The “Utopian” Purge of Native Americans
Perpetrators: British colonists, and later the government and citizens of the United States, including the military, state militias, and settlers. Key figures include President Andrew Jackson, General William T. Sherman, and Colonel John Chivington.
Justification: The ideology of Manifest Destiny, the belief that American settlers were destined by God to expand across the continent, spreading democracy and “civilization.” This framed Native Americans as primitive obstacles to progress, to be removed or eradicated. Examples:
President Andrew Jackson (1830), on Indian Removal:
“What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms…?”
General Philip Sheridan is famously attributed with the phrase,
“The only good Indian is a dead Indian,” which encapsulated the genocidal attitude on the frontier.
California Governor Peter Burnett (1851):
“That a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the races until the Indian race becomes extinct must be expected.”
Victims & Estimated Deaths: The pre-contact population of the land area that became the United States is estimated at ~5–10 million. By the 1900 census, the population had fallen to approximately 237,000, a catastrophic collapse of over 95%, achieved through multiple strategies:
1) Organized Massacres and Warfare
The Pequot War (1636–1638): The Mystic Massacre set a precedent for total war against non-combatants.
The Creek War and Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814): Future President Andrew Jackson, leading Tennessee militia and allied Cherokee, attacked the Red Stick Creeks. In the final battle, his troops killed over 800 Creek warriors, then cut strips of skin from corpses to make bridle reins.
The Sand Creek Massacre (1864): Colonel John Chivington, a Methodist preacher and militia commander, attacked a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho flying an American flag. He ordered his troops to “kill and scalp all, big and little.” Approximately 230 people, mostly women, children, and the elderly, were mutilated and murdered. Chivington later displayed body parts in a Denver theater.
The Marias Massacre (1870): The U.S. Army, under Colonel Eugene Baker, attacked a sleeping Piegan Blackfoot camp, killing an estimated ~200 people, mostly women, children, and the elderly, who were sick with smallpox.
The Wounded Knee Massacre (1890): The U.S. 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of Miniconjou Lakota. While disarming them, a shot was fired. The soldiers opened up with devastating fire from Hotchkiss cannons and rifles, killing an estimated ~300 Lakota men, women, and children. Widely considered the end of the Indian Wars.
2) Forced Removals and Death Marches
The Indian Removal Act (1830): Signed by President Andrew Jackson, authorizing the forced relocation of tens of thousands of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands in the Southeast to “Indian Territory” (modern Oklahoma).
The Trail of Tears (1838–1839): The forced removal of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations. Of ~16,000 Cherokee forced on the 1,200-mile march, an estimated 4,000–6,000 died from disease, starvation, and exposure. The total death toll for all nations on their respective “Trails of Tears” is estimated at 15,000+.
3) Biological Warfare and Intentional Starvation
Siege Tactics and Resource Destruction: A common military strategy was to destroy the primary food source of Plains Indians, the bison. General Philip Sheridan stated:
“Let them kill, skin, and sell until the buffalo is exterminated, as it is the only way to bring lasting peace and allow civilization to advance.” From a population of ~30 million, bison were reduced to fewer than 1,000 by 1890, deliberately starving nations such as the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Comanche into submission.
The Fort Pitt Smallpox Incident (1763): During Pontiac’s War, British officers at Fort Pitt (including Sir Jeffrey Amherst) documented giving smallpox-infested blankets to hostile Delaware Indians, writing:
“You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets.” This is one of the earliest documented cases of attempted biological warfare.
4) Legal and Cultural Extermination
The Dawes Act (1887): Broke up communally held tribal lands into individual allotments, selling the “surplus” to white settlers. Resulted in the loss of ~90 million acres of tribal land between 1887 and 1934, roughly two-thirds of the land base held at the time.
Indian Boarding Schools: Modeled after Captain Richard H. Pratt’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School, whose philosophy was “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” Children were forcibly taken from families, punished for speaking their languages, and subjected to cultural erasure and abuse, leading to widespread trauma and death from disease and despair.
LAST WORD:
Dear reader, I encourage you to read the historical addenda and review the sheer scale of suffering the “utopias” listed provoked in the world, not to mention the political utopias that concluded in totalitarianism and industrial-scale destruction and unspeakable suffering.
I do not know if we should ever look at any utopia that excludes others. I think this text is enough to understand that utopias are doomed to fail if that means the exclusion of any kind. Either we are all together, or none will enter this better place and age for humanity.
The world is big enough for every soul to live in peace. And I hope that you, dear reader, secretly in your heart, no matter what you see on TV shows, what you learn at school, what your committee chief tells you, or what your moral chief tells you, I hope that you, you in the secret of your heart, in the secret of your head, have a secret wish for a true UTOPIA.
The only UTOPIA that is not in a geographical place but in your soul and your heart.
The name of the only UTOPIA possible is PEACE!
PEACE is not a country but a place, the core of your being, the divine light that every one of us has at the spring source of our soul.
AND DO NOT FORGET! Most of you live in a space that was emptied, for the most part, by your fathers and grandfathers, with enormous pain and blood and tears paid by those who inhabited the exact same place you may be living in now.
Have the humility to try to inquire about what can be inquired. Honour what can be honoured. We cannot repair the past, but we can have a better and brighter future.
Forget forgetfulness. Know your history, wherever you are. Have no shame, but recognize the painful past. We should know better now, so we should act better now.
Even if you are not Christian, we can all understand Jesus’s fervent hope and will:
“Love each other as I have loved you.”
He did not specify any race, colour, origin, faith, gender, age, richness, or power.
Beware all who want to or think they are better than their brothers because they were luckier, or are better God-gifted, or have more material possessions or fame.
The first of us is not the one who is bigger than his little brother, but the one who is willing to be the last of us by humility and love for all. We are humans, and we all have the same dignity.
Do not spoil the world.
Be The Last Human and the First one!