The limits of superiority: privilege makes you vulnerable, and panic blended with ignorance and bigotry creates anger. Limitless and blinding anger. Everyone else becomes the enemy. The fortress becomes a prison Everyone else looking in at you. ibid.
1So educated Europeans today know how children die when the whip of debt and bombs whistle over poor countries. It is not knowledge that is lacking … Imperialism is a biologically necessary process that according to the laws of nature leads to the inevitable destruction of the lower races. ibid.
This knowledge is a fundamental prerequisite. That is why the narrator can tell his story as he does in Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness. He has no need to count the crimes Kurt committed. He has no need to describe them. He has no need to produce evidence. For no-one doubted it. ibid.
Abandoned cities, ancient cultures nearly erased by time. And colossal empires that simply vanished. How does a civilisation become ‘lost’. Is it decimated by wars or die off as a result of some deadly plague or cataclysm? … The UnXplained with William Shatner s1e11: Lost Civilisations, History 2021
120,004. More than one third of Gobekli Temp’s stone pillars contain elaborate bar-relief carvings of various animals … many of the species depicted … are not indigenous to this area. ibid.
There are no solutions. Civilisation’s going to have to basically destroy itself before people get the message. People aren’t getting the message right now. Things aren’t going to get better. There are no solutions. Storyville: Whirlybird: Live Above LA, BBC 2021