I'm probably most famous for The Jungle Book but the Disney version was very different to my story where rather than Mowgli disappearing into the village forever and living happily ever after with his own people and leaving Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Panther in the dust, in my version the village Mowgli tries to return to banishes him back to the wilderness, and he and his Jungle friends come back and destroy the entire goddamned village, Disney went with their own less murdery interpretation of that. I feel i should try and explain my poem White Man's Burden which refers to the viewpoint that it is the responsibility of the white man to drag the savages kicking and screaming into modernity, even if it kills them, which to be fair it mostly did.
Some took it as me being racist which is nonsense, i just took the view that the white race is morally obligated to rule the non-white people on the planet in order to encourage their economic, social, and cultural progress and their heathen religions should be replaced with the far superior Christianity.
See, explained that like i was being kind, saying that primitive peoples, incapable of self-government, could, with British guidance, eventually become civilized, so what's wrong with that?
That idiot Mark Twain was against me, saying he was shocked that i should promote the propagation of the Gospel to replace other religions and that we should try to Christianise the Christians first but hey, Old Twainy never won a Nobel Prize for Literature but i did so what does he know.
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