Colonialism brought on relativity.
We said:
“why weren’t they savages, primitives?
Why wouldn’t they want to live
the kind of lifestyle that the West had?”
Eventually, we had to agree
that people might actually want their own culture,
that what we thought was inferior
might be considered superior by another.
Einstein could only have been produced in this milieu;
colonialism led to the atomic bomb.

In times of collapse, inner-social differences evap
. Against enemy, armed political adversary oft becomes friend.
Capitalism, then, is a state of perpetual collapse,
an eternal struggle for survival,
though more individual than social,
a society in which we are all poor, must all struggle to gain money.
Capitalism leads to tolerance of other
races, religions, and creeds
-- after all, a dollar is a dollar,
whether held by a black, a Jew, an agnostic, a WASP,
a Democrat, or a Republican.

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