RE: In light of this past Columbus day
October 11, 2012 at 9:50 am
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2012 at 10:05 am by Anomalocaris.)
Columbus may not be paying your bills, but the fact that you actually live in an advanced economy where you have any money to pay your bills at all,or indeed actually have had enough to eat all your life,is very likely thanks in large part to the consequences of the invasion, made possible by Columbus, that you revile.
Do some real research on the full impact of the invasion as it has developed in the last 500 years, how the invasion promoted trade, communication, the massive impetus it gave to agricultural progress, its vital role in growth of economies with capital to invest in it's own advancement, instead of dwelling in some airy flakiland of shallow morality.
Columban exchange was initally very hard on the Indians. But it laid the foundation for a fundamentally better and more progressive world that would probably carry on benefiting mankind the entire rest of humanity's tenure on earth, and whose benefits would ultimately be enjoyed by the descendants of the same indians as well. no contest.
Do some real research on the full impact of the invasion as it has developed in the last 500 years, how the invasion promoted trade, communication, the massive impetus it gave to agricultural progress, its vital role in growth of economies with capital to invest in it's own advancement, instead of dwelling in some airy flakiland of shallow morality.
Columban exchange was initally very hard on the Indians. But it laid the foundation for a fundamentally better and more progressive world that would probably carry on benefiting mankind the entire rest of humanity's tenure on earth, and whose benefits would ultimately be enjoyed by the descendants of the same indians as well. no contest.
