The Epistemic Orange: "An entire civilization will die tonight, and it will never return. I do not want that to happen, but it will most likely happen." In 1945, at the end of World War II, Japan had surrendered and signed the instruments of defeat before the Allies. Before that, Adolf Hitler had committed suicide in Germany, and Benito Mussolini was executed along with his mistress in Italy. Imperial Japan was left powerless and broken. However, an American president, described as psychopathic, named Harry S. Truman, wanted to announce to a war-exhausted world the birth of a new, revived empire—one that would bury the old colonial powers (Britain and France). An empire whose president chose to drop a small atomic bomb (“Little Boy”) on Nagasaki and another on Hiroshima, killing 300,000 innocent civilians, just to declare: America is the master of the world and its sole superpower. It is true that America is the greatest empire known to history, but it is also certain that the world is more beautiful without America.
