Andrew Schulz

I think that that's probably fair.

Okay.

And also, when you say, like, where did they get the balls?

Well, one of the things is, you know, we...

People look at the entire colonial world as being this inherent great crime that was done to many, many different cultures.

But the reality of the people who committed those crimes was they either do that or they die in the slums back home.

There are not rich, wealthy people being born in Spain who are like, man, I'm going to go be a boat captain and learn how to do the hardest job imaginable, and then I'm going to go lead an army to conquer these people and probably die.

This is crypto.

Yeah, this is people who grew up in the slums that don't really have any opportunity back home.

Here's my way out.

This is my way to have some wealth.

And they didn't realize when they set out that you can't change the course of what you're about to do.

You can't turn around.

You're going to be militarily obligated to do this.

This is apparent in the whole burn the ships philosophy.

They burned the ships so that they couldn't retreat, right?

This is what you're going to do.

And if that meant killing thousands of people and slaughtering a whole civilization to take everything that they had and take it back home to enrich yourself, you didn't have a choice.

And you probably didn't even know that that was going to happen when you set out to do this.

So colonization is something like this establishment of the global market was something that was always going to happen and it was always going to be indescribably horrific.