Can much of the angst, guilt, and outrage heaped upon us by the left be summed up in this one ironic meme (the image above)?
It is a picture with two edges.
First, the world was savage long before Europeans arrived. Tribes warred for resources, enslaved people, raped, plundered, and killed. Entire cultures rose and fell. People died of cold, heat, hunger, and disease. All for millennia before Europeans even knew how to sail the seas.
None of that changed when the age of exploration landed Europeans in places all over the planet. What did change was technology and the cultural curiosity that drove it? Every modern age was the result of an inquisitiveness that lead to new ideas and ways of doing things that inevitably improved quality of life and longevity.
Might they have made these advances in their absence? We’ll never know- not exactly. And that’s the other edge.
The ancestors of those who embraced these unavoidable changes live longer, healthier, more comfortable lives but if all that does is make you bitter, go live someplace less fortunate.
The world is filled with places with people “who look like you” no matter what you look like, that are more like the world before “the settlers” arrived. No one is stopping you from going to live your “better life” in the company of culturally rich but otherwise impoverished people.
Wear your North Face, Lands End, Vinyard Vines, and don’t forget to bring the iPhone. The sight of that thing might just encourage them to make you their leader, though I’m not sure how you’ll charge it once the battery dies.
No one’s stopping you.
Can we help you pack?
