The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. 'God had made us master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savages and senile peoples.' From the vantage point of the colonizing episteme, the evil is always disorder rather than unjust order; anarchy rather than control, darkness rather than pallor. To plead otherwise is to write 'carte blanche for chaos.' Yet those who wear the mark of chaos, the skins of darkness, the genders of unspeakable openings -- those Others of Order keep finding voice. But they continue to be muted by the bellowing of the dominant discourse.
Catherine KellerTags: history nature religion feminism oppression theology chaos colonialism order postcolonialism
ma chère penchons sur les filons géologiques
(my dear let us lean on geographical veins)
Tags: poetry french colonialism aime-cesaire martinique
We… believed once in English liberalism and English sympathy; but we believe no longer, for facts are stronger than words. Your liberalness we see plainly is only for yourselves, and your sympathy with us is that of the wolf for the lamb which he deigns to eat.
Mohammed AbduhTags: colonialism
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?
Anthony BurgessTags: reason colonialism colonization
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For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.
Carl SaganTags: war america usa moon human-nature human hypocrisy cruelty colonialism bomb
A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.
George OrwellTags: war imperialism britain india colonialism british-empire pukka-sahibs
The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.
Jamaica KincaidTags: reality jamaica-kincaid england idea colonialism
Perhaps the main reason America cannot 'get over' its war with Viet Nam is that Americans cannot fit what happened into its earlier myth of itself—that we had always been 'the good guys,' conquering injustice around the world. The tens of thousands of mistreated half-American children born in Viet Nam are one untidy fact we have been unable to fit into that myth.
Trin YarboroughTags: imperialism colonialism amerasians viet-nam-war
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
Chinua AchebeTags: colonialism worldview south-korea nigeria
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