The notion of power as cancer

However, if older history were better known, people would see that the there have been similar scenarios in every place and time. It would be more accurate to say that powerful people are a cancer, but of course that doesn't have as much political punch, since different people are powerful at different times 

I agree with the notion of power as cancer. (Pre-)historically, when various groups' customs and measures for preventing the rise of centralized and institutional authority broke down you see the emergence of the State (see Clastres), and with the emergence of the State comes endless growth and expansion, and the much-increased ecological and cultural wreckage that follows behind it.

"Whites as cancer" myth arose quite simply because at the peak period of a civilization which has caused more ecological and cultural destruction than any other, and they all cause such to an extent it is true, there was a popular notion that that culture was the pinnacle of achievement stretching back all the way to early Greek, or perhaps even Sumerian, civilization. In other words, "whites" set themselves up for this, by conflating 3,000 years of the history of *different* racial and cultural groups' civilizations into "white, western civilization" in accordance with their narrative myth of progress.

From an objective standpoint, I don't think it is fair at all to say "whites are cancer" for the very reason that I don't accept the construct of "whiteness" or "western civilization", except as a shorthand, and the idea generally has only carried much tract in Europe among people who, or during times where, perceive an outside enemy; it's a sort of ideological tactical alliance against a bigger threat, but as meaningful term of identity it's bankrupt (how can one feel solidarity with thousands of years of history and dozens of nations, not to mention contradictory cultural-ideological movements?). People on both sides are guilty of this kind of haziness in speaking of such things, whether they are defending or critiquing "it", usually precisely because both talk in terms of progress, whether it's the conservative notion of European achievement or the liberal of "overcoming" ethno-centricity. Even in the case of the latter though, it still represents an underlying idea of moral superiority, which is why liberals constantly feel a need to integrate minorities into "white" culture. So, I see no liberal or Jewish conspiracy here, just a myth sort of turning in on itself or developing in another direction.

EDIT: Ethno-centricity, not ego.