Noam Chomsky: Ecology, Ethics, Anarchism | Alternet
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... the settler-colonial societies are a striking illustration of, first of all, the massive destructive power of European imperialism, which of course includes us and Australia, and so on. And also the — I don’t know if you’d call it irony, but the strange phenomenon of the most so-called “advanced,” educated, richest segments of global society trying to destroy all of us, and the so-called “backward” people, the pre-technological people, who remain on the periphery, trying to restrain the race to disaster. If some extraterrestrial observer were watching this, they’d think the species was insane. And, in fact, it is. But the insanity goes back to the basic institutional structure of RECD ["really existing capitalist democracies- not accidentally, pronounced “wrecked”]. That’s the way it works. It’s built into the institutions. It’s one of the reasons it’s going to be very hard to change.