Thanks! I totally forgot the "they did it to themselves" bullshit, which really is incredibly damning (it's so stupid, you get it w r t American colonization as well, entirely eliding things like biological warfare, etc). It's also pretty much exactly as bad as I feared.

One of the worst western :brainworms:

What's especially annoying is there are good analyses in the book alongside this drek. Her consideration of how modern society and totalitarian states produce loneliness is really relevant. Meanwhile, hurr durr colonialism made modern cities in far off places.

:foucault-madness: at what cost!