@Moon @Humpleupagus @condret @ageha

i think there's a difference between power struggles and the cultural force that invented scientific racism and embraced capitalism. the former is honestly easy to understand and a proven way to spend long eras of human history without running into ecological failures. i'm not qualified to say that this is a uniquely evil thing, but industrial colonization has to be somewhere on the level of the industrial revolution in terms of global social impact. they do this, all the while pretending like its somehow good and right. that's fucking crazy to me, so many people all just agreeing that most of the rest of the people on the planet don't qualify as "actual people". its too uncomfortable to think about. rude even, and being rude is far worse than allowing other human beings to be exploited for hundreds of years. the belief persists, people still think like that today. saying, "well we saved our victims from fighting with each other." like it was a favor. fighting 👏 is 👏 fun 👏 but instead we have armies of alienated incels ready to die to protect this pile of shit. in a way, i think it boils down to if "the people" have a heart. it takes a lot of people to run an empire, and people play along. it works because of that. you see people suffering everywhere, but "its just part of the cost, you see. i got mine so whatever." it hurts too much to really feel what's up i suppose. the horror is so extreme that its maybe debilitating to even recognize. it has the feel of trauma. a deep wound echoing through time.