bettyfer’s Reviews > Culture and Imperialism > Status Update

i know it seems like i'm trudging along this book with my clown self logging in every 10-page progress but it's substantially more enjoyable than i originally thought. the reality is that i am simply not a fast reader.

anyway, i did not know the great game and the white man's burden were concepts coined by rudyard kipling. the invention of tradition. huh. man sure was busy.

"BP's ideas about 'boyology' fed these images directly into a grand scheme of imperial authority culminating in the great Boy Scout structure 'fortifying the wall of empire', which confirmed this inventive conjunction of fun and service in row after row of bright-eyed, eager and resourceful little middle-class servants of empire."

savage takedown of the boy scouts by mr said

'And it is certainly true that many great aesthetic objects if empire are remembered and admired without the baggage of domination that they carried through the process from gestation to production. Yet the empire remains, in inflection and traces, to be read, seen, and heard.'

bars!!

me reading about aida while having never seen or heard aida

i had never really considered anthropology and geography as imperialist sciences. one of those commentaries that in hindsight are fairly obvious, but someone has to point them out first

my office desk book

'It is perhaps embarrassing that sectors of the metropolitan cultures that have since become vanguards in the social contests of our time were uncomplaining members of this imperial consensus. With a few exceptions, the women's as well as the working-class movement was pro-empire.' 🏴‍☠️

--- and we are done with chapter one!

teach me, edward

'the rhetoric of power all too easily produces an illusion of benevolence when deployed in an imperial setting'

and we're done with the introduction 🎉