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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.

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