— PoMo fops love to beat up on colonialism, making it synonymous with oppression and dodging the question of how the Evil West was able to dominate the unwashed masses of the Third World in the first place. Dinesh D’Souza explains the source of western power in Two cheers for colonialism
The reason the West became so affluent and dominant in the modern era is that it invented three institutions: science, democracy and capitalism. All these institutions are based on universal impulses and aspirations, but those aspirations were given a unique expression in Western civilization.
He goes on to explain that while colonialism may have been bad for older generations of Indians, those of his generation have benefited from it handily. The unbalanced teaching of the colonial period is one of the major defects of our government run schools. It’s not touchy-feely to talk about how colonialism modernized the primitives, but it’s true.
Perhaps a little colonialism is the solution to Saudi Arabia’s evident load of problems.