Colonisation: our sad evolution

IF CHRISTOPHER Columbus and other Europeans had not decided to commute across the Atlantic in their giant, cinemascopic frigates, beginning about 70 years ago, and passing, first through legendary cinemas like the Victoria, Royal, Albert, Avalon, Shah-Jehan, and later through the Raj, Shiraz and Sabena, kicking and killing the savage Native Indians, all acted out by white Hollywood actors (for having earlier wiped out the entire Cherokee, Cheyenne and Blackfoot tribes, no real Native Indian was available), the big question remains: Would Native Indians still be around, dancing around their wigwams, scalping one another just for fun, engaging in wiping out the rest of the buffalo population on foot, and building the tallest totem pole at the very spot that the present Empire State building stands?

It’s the age-old, seekingto-go-back-in-time hypothesis and the frustratingly futile what-if question.

Perhaps stealing, invading and seizing other people’s property is part of our involuntary, natural, human urge.

Perhaps colonisation, sadly, is part of a very broad evolution. ES ESSA Clare Estate