Is this article a joke?

Produce the evidence that proves Kipling gave a monkeys about the USA much less addressed "The white man's burdon" to it.

Who wrote this rubbish? America is not synonymous with mankind. It's not even synonymous with civilisation. If you want to blind us with quotes, who was it who said "America is the the only country to pass from barbarism to decadence without passing through civilisation"?

It would be easier to be smug about this if our current government wasn't hell bent on dragging us down to this pitiful level with, so far, outstanding success.

There are many, many other countries with a far better claim to represent "mankind". Mostly small island cultures who don't have TV.

(Talking)
Once upon a time at the foot of a great mountain, there was a town where the people known as Happyfolk lived,(Chorus in background humming)their very existence a mystery to the rest of the world, obscured as it was by great clouds. Here they played out their peaceful lives, innocent of the litany of excess and violence that was growing in the world below. To live in harmony with the spirit of the mountain called Monkey was enough. (Chorus stops humming) Then one day Strangefolk arrived in the town. They came in camouflage, hidden behind dark glasses,no one noticed them: they only saw shadows. You see, without the Truth of the Eyes, the Happyfolk were blind.

(Singing)
Falling out of aeroplanes and hiding out in holes
Waiting for the sunset to come, people going home
Jump out from behind them and shoot them in the head
Now everybody's dancing the dance of the dead
The dance of the dead
The dance of the dead.