"The only reason the US empire isn’t seen for the horrifying blood-soaked dystopia it is is because of that very propaganda machine, which normalizes and glorifies this freakish status quo through both its “news” media and its mainstream culture manufacturing centers in New York and Los Angeles."

This blood-spaked dystopia is in fact far older than the United States or so-styled "western civilization". AFAICT, it is a universal of the human condition.