Louis Proyect wrote: > The whole purpose of GGS is to salve the conscience of PBS > viewers, New Yorker Magazine subscribers and other comfortable liberals > vaguely aware of the existence of colonialism is to write it off as kismet. > If Peru had horses and Britain had llamas, then Peru would be on top and > Britain on the bottom. That's the way it goes...
that's simplistic. At least in GGS, the Spaniards [NB: not the Brits] had other advantages over the Incas besides the beasts of burden they used. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
