THE BOOK OF
OTHERS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF BASTARDS
The Africans never had a chanceThe poor man a piece of lint
Chapter 8
qAnd all the poor bastards who never had a chance will probably never get one either,
2Because now the ones who didn’t get imprisoned or enslaved or killed are stuck with what the Chosen Nations gave them,
3Including the desire for material possessions,
4And the lust for power,
5And fanatical beliefs about politics and religion,
6And corruption,
7And disease,
8And famine,
9And pollution,
10aAnd bastard cultures full of poverty, despair, and violence,
11Not to mention missionaries,
12And debts,
13And dictators,
14And wars,
15And a lot of patronizing lectures about what it takes to be civilized,
16From the people who know the most about civilization,
17Namely, all the Chosen Nations who ruined their lives in the first place.
18Poor poor bastards.
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