Rabelais in his 16th century work Gargantua wrote the famous expression about getting to the heart of something we are thinking about. He wrote that we have “to break the bone and suck the substantifique moelle, ‘the core marrow’”. We need such a famous expression to appropriately celebrate this moment when we can finally break the bone of American history and suck its core marrow. The substantifique moelle of America is to not allow any state anywhere in the world to be independent and sovereign. It created 50 American states with limited sovereignty. Its power forced Mexico to its south to divide itself into 31 non-sovereign states and Canada to its north into 10 non-sovereign provinces. President Roosevelt fought the Second World War to get rid of all the European colonial territories worldwide and replace them with newly formed states. Then his government in Washington spent the postwar period penetrating states and forcing their governments to support capitalism and remain open to foreign investment and to the foreign exploitation of their natural resources. At the same time, instead of exporting goods produced in America, Washington exported worldwide its capital, business know-how and technology. It weakened its economy at home and supported and developed foreign economies. It backed up development in foreign states by a revolutionary gigantic expansion of the world’s money supply based on the massive and continual creation of new dollars. Even nations it made war on and defeated -Japan, Germany, Italy-became prosperous by American diplomatic and military influence in their affairs. It did not let any state new or old alone. It penetrated them all. It forced Europeans to defend themselves from the mighty union of 50 American states by creating their own union of 28 states with their sovereign powers limited and sure to become more limited in the future. It was the chief cause of the breakup of the Soviet Union of 15 states in 1991 all of whom had full sovereignty. As a result, 3 of them joined the European Union accepting limitations to their sovereignty. This sketch of American history, like America’s whole past and contemporary history, has beneath its bone a substantifique moelle. Everyone in the world should break the bone and suck it. America will continue limiting the power of states until they are all finally cut down to just the amount of sovereign power they need to act effectively and democratically for only their citizens’ good.
Daniel McNeill
Daniel McNeill’s novella The End of All Beginnings is available at
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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right
from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it
can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected
and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards
one liberating ending to all its beginnings.
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