My turn to state an equation: colonization = "thing-ification."
I hear the storm. They talk to me about progress, about "achievements," diseases cured, improved standards of living.
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.
For my part, if I have recalled a few details of these hideous butcheries, it is by no means because I take a morbid delight in them, but because I think that these heads of men, these collections of ears, these burned houses, these Gothic invasions, this steaming blood, these cities that evaporate at the edge of the sword, are not to be so easily disposed of. They prove that colonization, I repeat, dehumanizes even the most civilized man; that colonial activity, colonial enterprise, colonial conquest, which is based on contempt for the native and justified by that contempt, inevitably tends to change him who undertakes it; that the colonizer, who in order to ease his conscience gets into the habit of seeing the other man as an animal, accustoms himself to treating him like an animal, and tends objectively to transform himself into an animal. It is this result, this boomerang effect of colonization that I wanted to point out.
Elimde somut hiçbir şey yoktu. Giderek deneyimin gerekliliğine inanıyor, filozofları deneyimi göz önünde bulundurmadan çene yordukları için suçluyordum. Kanıtlarla yanıt verecekleri yerde susuyorlardı. Bu bağlamda, tümü sulandırılmış din bilimcilere benziyorlardı.
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On dokuzuncu yüzyıla gelince, Hegel'in kendini beğenmiş ve akıcılıktan uzak dilini itici buldum ve ona hiç güvenemedim. Sözcüklerden kurduğu dört duvar arasında tutsak kalıp abartılı el kol hareketleriyle meramını anlatmaya çalışıyor gibi geldi.