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Generation after generation, those who intended to remain and prosper where they were have been dispossessed and driven out, or subverted and exploited where they were, by those who were carrying out some version of the search for El Dorado.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
While this is certainly speculative, it raises the question of whether Sarai's role as an intersubjective collocutor may have been key to this transformation.
The people being sacrificed/enslaved/imprisoned/colonized/left to die so that others can live comfortably are not the same level of human. They are other/substandard/lesser/darker/more animal/diseased/criminal/lazy/uncivilized.
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