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Collapse of the British Empire (view source)
Revision as of 13:59, November 19, 2022
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Little remains of British rule today across the globe, and it is mostly restricted to small island territories such as Bermuda and the Falkland Islands. However, a number of countries still have Queen Elizabeth as their head of state including New Zealand, Australia and Canada - a hangover of the Empire.<ref>[https://www.theweek.co.uk/tags/british-empire ''How big was the British Empire and why did it collapse?''], The Week</ref>}}
Little remains of British rule today across the globe, and it is mostly restricted to small island territories such as Bermuda and the Falkland Islands. However, a number of countries still have Queen Elizabeth as their head of state including New Zealand, Australia and Canada - a hangover of the Empire.<ref>[https://www.theweek.co.uk/tags/british-empire ''How big was the British Empire and why did it collapse?''], The Week</ref>}}
== Evolutionism/Darwinism as a cause of the collapse of the British Empire ==
== Evolutionism/Darwinism as a cause of the collapse of the British Empire ==
[[World War I]] and [[World War II]] greatly weakened the British Empire.
World War I saw the first use of [[poison gas]], large [[artillery]], armored [[tank]]s, and [[airplane]]s. It was a "total war" because the governments involved took control over the economy and factories, giving first priority to the goods needed for war. Wage and price controls were imposed, there was rationing of goods for civilians, and free speech was limited. The governments put out [[propaganda]] to maximize support for the war and dislike of the enemy. Many of the techniques of population manipulation and central government control which we see today were first pioneered by European powers during World War I.
Historian Jacques Barzun observed how [[Darwinism]] caused the horrendous brutality of the wars leading up to this one: "Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens — all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate."<ref>http://www.creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/making-a-monkey-out-of-darwin.html</ref> For more information, please see: [[World War I and Darwinism]]
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