01-24-2026, 05:13 AM
But also, if Europe hadn’t settled the new world, the world wouldn’t have made the progress it did in science and engineering, as there’d have been no markets for those services
Niall Ferguson gave a talk on the “killer apps” that Europe developed in capitalism, the joint stock company, separation of church and state, and science. That model is at an end, and the Asiatic one, of dedicated coordination, is the new paradigm, to further mankind’s growth
So colonisation was good in the long run, in much the same way thst the Holocaust was good for the Jews as it gave them the state that they’d been looking to re establish for 2000 years. But instead of celebrating it, which is backward looking, we should look towards the future, and celebrate only the promise of a coming AI age, with sapient Chinese robots
Niall Ferguson gave a talk on the “killer apps” that Europe developed in capitalism, the joint stock company, separation of church and state, and science. That model is at an end, and the Asiatic one, of dedicated coordination, is the new paradigm, to further mankind’s growth
So colonisation was good in the long run, in much the same way thst the Holocaust was good for the Jews as it gave them the state that they’d been looking to re establish for 2000 years. But instead of celebrating it, which is backward looking, we should look towards the future, and celebrate only the promise of a coming AI age, with sapient Chinese robots