Just finished War of the Worlds.H. G. Wells is not subtle at all, he tells British people what martians are to us we are to the people we colonize, so did it actually have an effect in its time? Did it bring introspection among the British public on the morality of their empire?
I don't know, all I know is that the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one
>>25262759Yes? They ended their empire?Of course that is a sickening message and ending the empire was a terrible mistake, but there you go. You got your way and now formerly lovely places are miserable turd world hellholes.
>>25262813They were forced to end their empire by the US, well given a choice.
>>25262759The British working class public of that time were just as colonised as rest of the empire. >>25262813The empire had decayed beyond all hope
>>25262813How were they lovely? And to whom?
>>25262877Lovely as in well governed, prosperous, safe, etc. To the people who lived there.
>>25263560Can you provide concrete examples?
>>25263584Salisbury
>>25263647Lmao
>>25262825The British working class public of that time had the highest standard of living of any proletariat in the world.
>>25262759WEE WOO WEE WOO WEE WOO
>>25262824The biggest and wealthiest empire in history was subjected to bullying kek. By one of its own colonies that told it to fuck off