This of course entailed that everyone else fell somewhere behind them in the scale of human evolution, not just women of course (who were too emotional to be rational), but all the other races, who were unfortunately falling behind in evolutionary terms, thus, the burden fell upon the white man to go forth and civilise them, such that they could be brought into the modern age of reason. This transparent hypocrisy within the Western cannon, was apparent to all those existing at the margins, unable to be recognised as part of mankind; however, the powerful and articulate critiques of the colonised, were rendered unintelligible to many in the West, because they could not see them as equally human, and thus these critiques were sidelined, allowing the hubris of Western liberalism to march on. The West has long seen itself as above the laws it has helped create, but there are older laws, those of the land, well understood by Indigenous peoples, which care not for the demands of Western exceptionalism; for there are some laws which cannot be circumvented by powerful men, and the consequences of those laws are coming for us all.
Author: Eric Worrall
Published at: 2025-11-15 22:00:00
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