The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Sunday, February 25, 2018

The limits of imagination

On AM Joy, Ms. Reid and the star of Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, loved the film's depiction of an Africa technologically advanced but apparently never colonized politically or culturally.

But this alternative history is no more plausible than an imagined united, democratic, and modern India participating extensively, as it does, in the contemporary intellectual, scientific, and technological civilization of the globe, that never went through a phase of British colonialism.

No more than Roman roads without the Roman Empire, or Hadrian's Wall without Hadrian.

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