The psychology of the empire: the worshippers of death
I am no psychologist.
I am nobody.
But I will state only facts.
Then I will give my conclusion.
You are free to reach your own.
Maybe we will get the same answer.
Why do monsters exist? Why?
Engulfed in egoism and self-delusion, a monster is a lonely man.
He may believe he loves those who are like him, but if loving his own means excluding those who are different, then the tribal man cannot be happy, because to preserve his tribe, he must tolerate injustice.
Hate.
Look carefully at this word.
Hate is what some carry in place of a heart.
Slowly, slowly, day by day, murder after murder, torture after torture, orphan after orphan, the suffering of the oppressed becomes unbearable. Humans transform into suffering flesh, into beings that can no longer think, only groan in pain.
The opposite transformation happens to the perpetrators.
They turn into heartless beasts, brutes with violent criminal minds. They too lose their humanity, but not through suffering. They lose it by locking suffering behind gates, sealing it into containers where pressure builds every day.
They must increase their hatred to keep those gates closed.
If they fail, they would drown in the waves of tears they hide inside, containers ready to burst.
Humans are bound to one another.
Butcher and victim are linked by the same bond, influencing each other.
The butcher knows he is sinking into a sea of sins, a sea of crimes that bears the image of his deeds. He is drowning in the blood of innocent victims. He becomes deaf to the cries of mothers who lost a child to a sniper or a bomb. He becomes blind to the consequences of his actions.
By destroying his brother, he does not eliminate him.
He destroys himself, his humanity, by becoming a monster.
This is the greatest sin of the victim:
turning his brother into a murderer, into a monster,
a monster that pretends to be human, but not for long.
One day, the human will wake up and look into the mirror.
He will see his monstrous face.
One day, the human will try to wash his hands clean of innocent blood but he cannot see them clean.
One day, the human will hear the laughter of his children
and see the children of the brother he killed.
One day, the human will realize his brother is gone.
And he is alone, alone with the monster he created within himself.
His place has become hell on earth,
a land of emptiness and desperate remembering,
a place of guilt and shame.
He will call this earth his,
but he knows it is a lie.
A stolen land will never be his,
just as a raped woman will never be his wife.
In a hundred years, someone will ask:
“Why are you crying?”
“I have lost the light of my soul.
Now I try to fill this empty jar with tears of regret.
But for all the innocent blood I spilled, I became evil,
and nothing can soothe my longing to be human again, God’s light has abandoned me. I am alone in hell. Forever!”
Beware, you builders of empires, you worshippers of death, you oppressors and slayers of the innocent:
God lives. He sees all.
Every crime you commit is a wound you inflict upon yourself and your own bloodline.
Every drop of innocent blood you spill becomes a curse, a spell upon you and your descendants.
God is patient, yet His righteous judgment you shall not escape.
Without God, you are nothing, and nothing shall you remain.
Empires crumble and fade, but God is eternal.
Do not cast away everlasting justice for the vain, temporary spoils of pride and self-aggrandizement.
Beware worshippers of death, your path goes straight to hell.
Note: Some psychological insights:
Exclusive victim consciousness, also called competitive victimhood, fosters a sense of proprietary suffering. One group comes to believe that its pain is unique, superior, or more deserving than that of others.
Colonial ideology reframes indigenous peoples as subhuman, primitive, savage, childlike, or animalistic. Terms such as barbarians, vermin, beasts, or uncivilized are used to strip them of full moral worth, agency, and even the capacity to suffer.
This reframing makes their pain either invisible or deserved.
Massacres become pacification.
Forced labor becomes civilizing work.
Cultural destruction becomes upliftment.
Classic examples include:
British portrayals of Indians and Africans as backward and in need of rule.
Spanish conquistadors viewing Native Americans as lacking souls.
The Belgian Congo under Leopold II treating Congolese people as tools for rubber extraction.
Thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire explicitly described colonialism as a process that dehumanizes both sides. The colonized are reduced to inferiority, while the colonizer becomes brutalized by treating other humans as animals.
Moral inversion: when evil becomes good
Colonial logic reverses right and wrong.
Conquest becomes a civilizing mission, often framed as the White Man’s Burden.
Genocide and displacement become progress or necessary for development.
Exploitation, including slavery and resource theft, becomes economic benefit or mutual improvement.
Resistance becomes savagery or terrorism, justifying unlimited violence.
This creates the same righteous certainty seen in other totalitarian systems.
Extermination becomes sanitation.
Purges become defense of the revolution.
Collective and systemic harm
Colonialism was not merely individual cruelty. It was bureaucratic, institutional, and scalable.
Laws such as land theft acts and racial codes, education systems imposing the colonizer’s culture, media and propaganda portraying a dark continent, and military and administrative machinery normalized mass death, forced assimilation, cultural erasure, and economic plunder.
Patrick Wolfe’s concept of the logic of elimination describes settler colonialism as an ongoing structure, not a one-time event. Its goal is to erase native populations and replace them with settlers, as seen in the United States, Australia, Canada, and debated in Israel-Palestine contexts.
Blindness to suffering, returning to the earlier point
Colonialists often expressed genuine benevolence toward “their” natives while remaining utterly blind to the human cost of colonial rule. Ideology made suffering irrelevant, or even redemptive.
This selective empathy, reserved for “civilized” kin, combined with dehumanization, produced the same chilling indifference previously discussed. Ordinary people administered horrors while believing themselves moral, righteous, and civilized.