<story><title>Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See</title><url>http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/01/11/the-holocaust-we-will-not-see/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_h4xr</author><text>I recommend getting over it. You are almost certainly the descendants murderers and conquerors.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7819&amp;#38;IBLOCK_ID=35&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7819&amp;#38;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s just how humans roll.&lt;p&gt;Western Europe had lots of problems, but countries that operate in the European tradition are better places to live. (At least, when you look at the immigration patterns between third-world and first-world countries, it&apos;s clear that first world countries export idealism, which is then processed into jaded realism and returned. Meanwhile, poor countries send their top .1% to join the Western world&apos;s top 10%; a good deal for both sides).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dschobel</author><text>&lt;i&gt;That&apos;s just how humans roll.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Precisely. History is littered with examples of the imperialistic tendencies of man (if you want to see some grade-A imperialism, look into how the Aztecs built their empire, hint: it wasn&apos;t by having lots of babies).</text></comment>
<story><title>Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See</title><url>http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/01/11/the-holocaust-we-will-not-see/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_h4xr</author><text>I recommend getting over it. You are almost certainly the descendants murderers and conquerors.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7819&amp;#38;IBLOCK_ID=35&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7819&amp;#38;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s just how humans roll.&lt;p&gt;Western Europe had lots of problems, but countries that operate in the European tradition are better places to live. (At least, when you look at the immigration patterns between third-world and first-world countries, it&apos;s clear that first world countries export idealism, which is then processed into jaded realism and returned. Meanwhile, poor countries send their top .1% to join the Western world&apos;s top 10%; a good deal for both sides).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cynicalkane</author><text>I&apos;d like to think modern man is a better class of humans than their murderously genocidal ancestors.&lt;p&gt;With so many of the comments seemingly endorsing manifest destiny on the part of &quot;civilized&quot; people, I&apos;m beginning to reconsider this opinion.</text></comment>