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Today I’m thinking about William Laurence and about how strongly he believes in the foundational lies of English ideology, and how fascinating that is.

Because he learned that in England, honor stands above all else, that they are built on a system of reason and justice and progress. And we all know that as a colonialist state, these are the lies they tell to try and justify the atrocities they commit. England doesn’t really follow them. But William Laurence has buried these ideologies so deeply in his being that at first, he can’t believe England would ever be anything else. Then as he learns, he holds onto those ideologies so hard, actually attempts to uphold them, and it puts him in direct conflict with what England is actually doing.

Anyway, England hand cultivated this giant pain in the ass themselves, and that’s part of what makes Laurence’s story so tragic, but also so ridiculously funny.