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[Whateverist]

So are we still using this thread to talk about books we're reading? Just read one by China Achebe called Things Fall Apart. It is a novel written in 1959 by a man born in Nigeria about what life in a village before europeans arrive and then what happens when the brits show up intent on imposing both their religion and political order. Gives you a good feel for the nature of the lives they led before and how disempowering it was to have self determination extinguished. It is about the imperialism of european politics and religion. Openly imperialistic political aspirations are no longer palatable to most people, but so much of Christianity remains as hell bent on hegemony as ever. You'd think with their access to god-ordained, objective morality they'd get past this; instead it just their raw ambition more obvious.