Tens or possibly hundreds of millennia ago, a hominid started the evil trend away from living in harmony - or at least within one’s means - towards building empires ... which inherently means colonialism, as it means conquering other peoples’ lands, resources, and those people themselves, and making them subservient to the empire builder.
They probably didn’t have a major impact then, but every colonial empire since then - the Roman Empire, Ottoman, Chinese, Burmese, British, US, and all the others - date back to that person who first thought to take others' stuff not for purely direct, personal gain (i.e., theft) but a tool that can be used to dominate others and receive power - probably in the form of attention, at first.
There’s a dividing line between theft and imperialism, but once crossed there are many examples of the latter on a small everyday scale in western “culture” ... and they contribute to the “psychic/social/cultural” soup that enables and facilitates empire building, including colonialism.
Every business leader who gloats at taking over other companies (“hostile takeovers”) or sending competitors broke is contributing to thinks like the USA ignoring a successful independence movement to invade the Philippines.
Every “ambitious” ladder climber forcing others into their worldview contributes to the social engineering that is most manifest in schools - most noticeably in elitist schools, perhaps, but there in others as well.
Every uninformed IPOC who slags off at so-called dole bludgers contributes to the pressure that forces the unwilling into armies of conquest.
With the exception of children and others (the ill, infirm, etc) who genuinely need support, every act in life that is against mature self reliance is for empires and colonialism.
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