287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History
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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Colonialism is an idea that is bandied about in the discourse these days, usually with the subtext that colonialism is bad. It is bad for the powerful, rich country to impose its will on some smaller, less well-equipped to defend itself part of the world. But, you know, it wasn't always thus that colonialism was thought of as bad. Maybe in the United States it has a bad rep. We started out as colonies and we needed to have a revolutionary war to overthrow the yoke of the British Empire. But there are other countries where they want to make an argument that by going into other parts of the world that are less enlightened, less developed, less rich than they are— They can bring an element of civilization, or they can spread laws or institutions. And even if it wasn't quite fair all the time, it wasn't all peaches and cream, maybe there's some lingering good effect.
Now, let me not be ambiguous here. Colonialism is bad. I think it is bad. I think you could easily argue that it's bad purely on sort of moral ethical grounds. There should be a right of self-determination of countries. You can help them, but maybe you can help them without taking them over would be my perspective. But as a scientist, you also want to be careful and nuanced and empirically based and say, OK, maybe some bad things happened in the past under the name of colonialism or whatever. Were they entirely bad? Or were there aspects that actually were good? Was civilization actually brought? Or was literacy or better roads or something like that to a different part of the world? Well, guess what?
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