I'm gonna go ahead and take this off, Stan. I think Tumblr has had enough to get their gifs. So white man's burden, you're a poem, and more than a century after Kipling wrote you, scholars still disagree over whether he was kidding. And this speaks to how weird and insane imperialism really was. Europeans seemed to genuinely believe that it was their unfortunate duty to extract massive wealth from the rest of the world. Seriously, were you kidding when you called natives half-devil and half-child? Because in retrospect, that seems to describe, you know, you.