Tuesday, November 30, 2004
, break
fight! fight! fight!
Smallpox first crossed the seams of Pangaea-specifically to the island of Española- at the end of 1518 or the beginning of 1519, and for the next four centuries it played an essential role in the advance of white imperialism overseas as gunpowder- perhaps a more important role, because the indigenes did turn the musket and then rifle against the intruders, but smallpox very rarely fought on the side of the indigenes.
-Alfred W. Crosby, Ecological Imperialism
like, let's go shopping.
