19 August 2024

The definition of civilised

The conqueror is always more civilised than native inhabitants! The British in Australia encountered a peoples perceived as primitive because the accepted definition of civilised is based on the demonstrated ability to maim, kill, rape and enslave (physically or economically) on a large scale. The Australian First Nations people and the inhabitants of most colonised nations could not do that, hence minimum respect for their cultures. Jimmy Carter once observed that for about 15 years in its history the US had not been involved in a war somewhere on the planet. It has exceptional abilities to kill on a...