There just seems to be something about the traditional European mentality, an incomprehensible something historically ingrained in European culture, that compels so many to take over—to steal—other peoples’ lands, and then quickly set to exploiting (stealing) those peoples’ natural resources and appropriating (enslaving) their labor to benefit the Europeans’ personal enrichment. The record shows little to no mercy and even less guilt in this mentality—which, emerging perversely out of the abject poverty, stark degradation and humiliation of the large peasant underclass during Europe’s long dark ages, strangely produced some twenty-five to thirty adventurous generations of arrogant bullies vainly certain of their superiority and unquestionable right to rule the world’s “lesser peoples” found everywhere that was outside of Europe.

The mentality eventually even acquired a name—colonialism—which the arch-colonialist Soviet Union hypocritically hurled westward as an intended epithet through seventy benighted years until its overdue collapse in 1991. Not that there wasn’t truth in the charge. A majority of the European nations had tried their hand at it one time or another between 1500 and 1900. The British became masters of the colonialist art, were especially effective in spreading the self-serving white-man’s-burden mentality through their emigrations and exiles to the aforementioned Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and of course the thirteen American colonies, and they stayed busily at it until their lucrative incessant meddling ended in India in 1947 and in Palestine less than a year later. Most of these colonies at one time or another tried a bit of it on their own, especially the U.S. No one has ever presented a plausible theory for why so many generations of Europeans turned out this way, but the fact of it stands in the testimony of five centuries between 1492 and 1992 CE.