Chapter I
When Europeans sailed west searching for the east, they took with them everything they were.Chapter II
Everything they were included ancient diseases like smallpox and measles, typhus and cholera.Chapter III
These were nothing compared to the fifteen-hundred-year-old dose of Christianity that also disembarked European ships.Chapter IV
While the zealotry of discovery created a new axis of indigeneity.Chapter V
Contact proved apocalyptic for the indigenous peoples of those “discovered” lands.Chapter VI
Colonisation is inherently violent.Chapter VII
It demands the destruction of one epistemology by another.Chapter VIII
But colonisation is more than “mere domination”.Chapter IX
It’s a new point of origin, an authentic beginning.Chapter X
A crime so great it is thought heroic.Chapter XI
Its beneficiaries understand; everything before is inferior.Chapter XII
And inferiors must be stricken from the record.Chapter XIII
But an epistemology maintained through violence.Chapter XIV
Is an epistemology constantly haunted by another’s craving for an authentic beginning.
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