Not to mention with the advent of modern journalism and TV we've been able to look more critically at our actions as an empire and put forth a front of respect for the dignity of our fellow humans that allows us an unprecedented moral superiority with which to disparage our imperialist forebears and detractors alike. We're your Friendly Neighborhood Oppressors!
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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