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But the colonial experiment unintentionally revealed how much of a demand there was for self-determination, and not just for relief from poverty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56afbfd58a65e261b705f1f9/1454362910003-5K51P1TCLFO34831FSWY/tyranny.jpeg Books Gallery - The Tyranny of Experts All too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with “benevolent autocrats,” leaving dictators with yet more power to violate the rights of the poor. (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56afbfd58a65e261b705f1f9/1454362906791-XOLPSLE3Q8NMOKHMOLU4/whiteman.png Books Gallery - The White Man's Burden An excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world. 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