Ruthie’s Reviews > In Memoriam > Status Update

We have conquered the world with promises that could not be kept. [...] We carried our white man’s burden dutifully, enlightening Indians—Indians! They who built the Taj Mahal! And Egyptians! For we knew better than their pyramids! We swarmed through Africa and America because we were better than they, of course we were, we were making war humane, and now it has broken down and they are dragged into hell with us.