Probably guilt over killing most of the natives and importing someone else's natives to do all the work

( Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 30 Jun 2023, 12:56, archived)

Probably. The issue is that if there's only one culture tearing itself to pieces over historical guilt, and every other culture is just basically shrugging and saying they don't give a shit what they did in the past, then that culture is circling the drain, and when anything is in danger of dying it commits desperate acts to save itself, hence the rise of far right identitarian parties across the West. Everything needs to come back to centre before the pendulum swings too far back the other way and we all end up in a civil war.
(Oooh_cuntroversial Where have I been?, Fri 30 Jun 2023, 13:08, archived)