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57:00 Aboriginal benefits
1:00:00 Aleister Crowley
1:02:00 Black Sabbath
1:03:00 Third Position
1:04:00 Quantum Physics
1:34:00 Theology
1:35:00 The binary
1:39:00 Nick Land
1:41:00 War of the sexes
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Hindus have no principles are "secular in nature".
1:51:00 Jews
1:52:00 Idolatry is antithetical ethical monotheism
1:53:00 Christianity in Australasia
1:57:00 Polynesians
1:58:00 Tongans
1:59:00 Aborigines of Australia and the Maoris of New Zealand
2:05:00 Privateers and the East India Companies
2:10:00 British colonialism and Indian conquest of Britain
2:11:00 A Muslim or Hindu takeover?
2:12:00 Principles
2:13:00 Freedom
2:14:00 Hindus do not have a prohibition against usury.
2:15:00 Boat people
2:16:00 Abos/nomadic < Maoris/settled people
British colonisers kinder than the Portuguese?
Objectively measuring the cruelty of European colonizers is tough because it involves subjective judgments, incomplete records, and diverse contexts across centuries. No universal metric exists, but historians often assess colonial impact through specific indicators: mortality rates, land dispossession, forced labor, cultural suppression, and documented atrocities. These can be compared across empires, though data gaps and biases in sources (often written by colonizers) complicate things.
For example:
- **Spanish Empire** (Americas, Philippines): High mortality from disease and encomienda labor systems; millions died in Mesoamerica alone. But some intermarriage and cultural blending occurred, unlike in more segregationist systems.
- **British Empire** (North America, India, Africa): Varied widely. In India, famines under British rule (e.g., Bengal 1943) killed millions, but administrative structures sometimes preserved local systems. In North America, native displacement was near-total in some areas.
- **French Empire** (West Africa, Indochina): Emphasized cultural assimilation ("mission civilisatrice"), often less overtly violent than Spanish conquests but still exploitative through forced labor and resource extraction.
- **Portuguese Empire** (Brazil, Angola): Heavy reliance on slave trade; Brazil’s indigenous population plummeted, but Portuguese colonies often had smaller settler populations, leading to less direct displacement.
- **Dutch Empire** (Indonesia, South Africa): Focused on trade monopolies; VOC’s (Dutch East India Company) exploitation in Indonesia involved brutal spice trade enforcement, but less large-scale conquest than Spain or Britain.
To compare "least cruel," you’d need to weigh specific actions:
1. **Mortality and Violence**: Spanish conquests in the Americas caused catastrophic population declines (e.g., 90%+ in some regions due to disease and violence). British settler colonies also decimated native populations through displacement. Dutch and French systems, while harsh, often had lower direct mortality in some regions.
2. **Cultural Impact**: French assimilation policies eroded local cultures less violently than Spanish religious conversions, but British indifference sometimes allowed local traditions to persist (e.g., in parts of India).
3. **Economic Exploitation**: All empires extracted resources, but the Dutch and Portuguese often prioritized trade over territorial control, potentially reducing direct harm in some cases.
No colonizer was "not cruel"—all profited from exploitation. The Dutch or Portuguese might rank as "least cruel" in specific contexts (e.g., smaller settler footprints), but this varies by region and era. Without a standardized cruelty index, it’s case-by-case.
2:17:00 The advantages of a global empire
2:18:00 The Moghuls were indigenous to India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_Empire
2:19:00 Hinduism and Buddhism
2:22:00 "Hinduism is not a proper religion."
2:23:00 Vidya wants the land of Pakistan without Pakistanis.
2:25:00 India-Pakistan War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_conflict
Hindu idolatry
2:29:00 Manifest destiny
2:30:00 Sanatana Dharma is another name for Hinduism.
2:31:00 Alexander the Great
2:34:00 Race and religion in India
235:00 Lord Rama
2:48:00 Unmarried parents
2:49:00 Feminism has undermined marriage.
2:35:00 Lord Rama
2:44:00 Usury
2:45:00 Economic affair
2:46:00 Welfare state
2:48:00 Low white birth rates
2:49:00 Women in the workplace
2:50:00 Feminism and the family wage
2:51:00 Female vote
2:52:00 Enforcing gender roles
2:53:00 Cooking the books
2:54:00 Reconquista
2:56:00 Rebellion
2:57:00 The laws of 1800s
2:58:00 Nuclear bombs
2:59:00 Europeans have gone through a range of political ideologies.
3:03:00 Indians should go home to India.
3:04:00 Perversion of Hindu religious principles
3:05:00 Caste system of Hinduism is not egalitarian.
3:06:00 Untouchables
3:11:00 Nurse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India
3:18:00 Did the Yeoman farmer enjoy more freedom than we do now?
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