Mahatma Gandhi: "[Western Civilization] would be a good idea."

A euphemism for the strong killing and plundering the weak exemplified by the cruel and larcenous British

A journalist inquired of Mahatma Gandhi, “What do you think of Western civilization?” He retorted, “I think it would be a good idea.”

Gandhi was right. Western civilization is no more than a euphemism for the British and sister Empires to murder and plunder the weak. Racist Rudyard Kipling styled it “the White Man’s Burden,” in exhorting the United States to better the ugly British example by slaughtering Filipinos in suppressing their unalienable right to self-determination celebrated in the American Declaration of Independence.

As hubris was the downfall of Greek heroes, it likewise proved the ruination of the British Empire. The staggering costs of a garrison state and chronic wars caused the Empire to shrivel from a mighty oak to a tiny acorn after World War II. It was financially and militarily depleted. It would have financially capsized without United States assistance.

Great Britain hastily withdrew from its colonial possessions like a thief fleeing from a crime scene leaving havoc in its wake. Millions died in the 1947 Hindu-Muslim partition of India into Pakistan and India and millions more in Pakistan’s genocidal killings in the Bangladesh war of independence. Britain decamped from Burma in 1948 and the country has been engaged in genocidal civil strife with Burmans against ethnic minorities like the Karan or Rohingya ever since.

In 1947, the British washed their hands like Pontius Pilate over Palestine leading to a 1948 United Nations partition plan which continues to fester to this very day. Britain midwifed apartheid in South Africa. It stole the Parthenon Marbles from Greece, the Kor-i-Noor diamond from India, and the Cullinan diamond from South Africa. It invented concentration camps during the Boer War 1899-1902. The British marched to the ditto throughout Africa, “Whatever happens we have got, the Maxim gun (machine gun) and they have not.” Britain planted the seeds of the gruesome Biafran civil war in Nigeria (1967-1970) by forcible amalgamation of heterogenous ethnic groups under a single sovereign roof as prescribed by its divide-and-conquer colonial policy.

There is much more. But you get the picture. The song “For He Is An Englishman” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore speaks volumes of British haughty arrogance.

Today’s juvenile coronation of King Charles III is a time to reflect on mankind’s lunacy and sordidness and to highly resolve that the noble cause of justice shall not perish from the earth.