[Tweet] Colonization in Reverse
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I would also have to point out that colonization did sometimes bring advantages to the colonized regions, I fail to see what advantage is for the British.
I was going to type a post here about the difficulty I have with calling the colonization by European powers "good" while also calling this "bad" as I hadn't worked out my thoughts on colonization.
But then I realized the term "colonization" as used here (perhaps intentionally) obfuscates the real issue. What the UK and other European countries are experiencing isn't mere "colonization", but outright invasion.
Colonization was an unmitigated good for Africa.
Africans were iron-age barbarians with no written language, no mechanical tech, no agriculture, and no architecture. Now they are heading back in that direction.
Lubumbashi has a single power plant built by the Belgians 70 years ago. The locals have to find foreign contractors to keep it working. It doesn't provide enough power so every week a different section of the city is blacked out.
It is a literal Mad Max world; ignorant savages living in the ruins of a civilization they didn't build and will never comprehend.
Of course they're heading back in that direction. Reversion to the mean.
Except now they have an absolutely enormous population surplus caused by western medicine and food imports.
Once that gravy train stops, hundreds of millions of them are going to die.
Macroscale example of why it's better to teach someone to fish rather than simply give him the fish.