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HarryStotle
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Everyone, including you, must rationalize their actions and beliefs, in the sense you imply, so it is somewhat unfair to think the colonizers must have “rationalized” their actions merely to explain them away. Many probably sincerely believed in what they were doing and many were likely in it for lucre.
The same might be said today of globalism as a new and evolved version of corporate colonization. We could legitimately portray as globalist colonizers those mega-corporate globalist elites reaping resources and territory by the promise of material blessings to third world societies. Sure it is no longer spiritual values being promoted, but it is material values, along with a set of sacraments (abortion, birth control, technology, etc.) and ideological orthodoxy (ethical relativism and politically correct leftist socialism complete with Inquisition-style trials of those not fully in the fold.)
The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
The same might be said today of globalism as a new and evolved version of corporate colonization. We could legitimately portray as globalist colonizers those mega-corporate globalist elites reaping resources and territory by the promise of material blessings to third world societies. Sure it is no longer spiritual values being promoted, but it is material values, along with a set of sacraments (abortion, birth control, technology, etc.) and ideological orthodoxy (ethical relativism and politically correct leftist socialism complete with Inquisition-style trials of those not fully in the fold.)
The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?