In 1936, Nehru wrote, in a letter to Lord Lothian: 'nothing astonishes me so much as the way the British people manage to combine their material interests with their moral fervour; how they proceed on the irrefutable presumption that they are always doing good to the world...
"... and acting from the highest motives, and trouble and conflict and difficulty are caused by the obstinacy and evil-mindedness of others."
This is why it is so important to remember the rapacious history of the British Empire, and the Anglosphere in general.
This is why it is so important to remember the rapacious history of the British Empire, and the Anglosphere in general.
Because they believe that when they conquer other countries, it's for their good & their own motives are benevolent. This way of thinking is not dead in the Anglosphere: it is what gave us the liberal-interventionist justifications of the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq etc.
This is why it's vital to remember this history. Because it's not - or not just - about what happened in the past: it's about what's happening in the present and what will happen again and again in the future unless this past is remembered.
