somewhere between psychotic and iconic

"The colonist makes history and he knows it. And because he refers constantly to the history of the metropolis, he plainly indicates that here he is the extension of the metropolis. The history he writes is therefore not the history of the country he is despoiling, but the history of his own nation’s looting, raping, and starving to death. The immobility to which the colonized subject is condemned can be challenged only if he decides to put an end to the history of colonization and the history of despoliation in order to bring to life the history of the nation, the history of decolonization."