0:00:00.0 Sean Carroll: Hello everyone, welcome to the Mindscape Podcast, I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Colonialism is an idea that is bandied about in the discourse these days, usually with the subtext that colonialism is bad. It is bad for the powerful, rich country to impose its will on some smaller, less well-equipped-to-defend-itself part of the world. But it wasn't always thus that colonialism was thought of as bad, maybe in the United States it has a bad rep.
