The Settler’s Extensive Guide to Divine Expansion
by Zoe Brown
by Zoe Brown
First, you should plan a trip with other people to a mysterious area. You and your group arrive at an initially unknown colony via boat, plane, car, or any mode of transportation in search of plentiful resources that could potentially help your country. You ignore any sign of life, whether that be a lone water bottle nestled on the ground, a well-built house, or anything that resembles a thriving previous settlement. It doesn’t matter if they lived there before you came, as their existence will eventually become insignificant to you.
Moreover, as you establish your settlement with its independent rules, societal standards, and way of life, make sure to create an alliance with the tribes native to the country. Make sure to treat the tribes with respect and kindness, as they are vital to your survival in the unknown land. Attempt to treat them to a big dinner to appreciate them for the beneficial and plentiful alliance.
Subsequently, aim to sign a treaty ensuring peace amongst all nearby parties in the area, including yours. Your settlement is fairly new, and you will not want to cause a bloody war, thus promising the destruction of your people. Whilst completing this step, secretly steal necessary resources and supplies from the tribes native to the land to suffice your selfish hunger for more.
Additionally, over the years, as your settlement becomes stronger and more dominant, start to take over more land. You want more. Your people are demanding more of everything: land, resources, and power. The selfish desire inbred in your genetic makeup will cause you to destroy the same treaty that promised peace across the land. It is time to unfairly strip the native tribes of their dignity and tranquility, all in the name of God.
Next, as you plunder and burn the villages filled with frightened mothers and children, think about the vast land you will be seizing from the “uncivilized” peoples. Aim to think of it as divinely repurposing the land while your group dismantles the familial structure, systematically erases future generations, and scorches their culture, languages, and homes.
Afterwards, establish more homes on the land you just robbed and aim to push more of the native peoples to a place they are unfamiliar with, ensuring their eventual deaths as they fail to survive. Your group will be happy for now, as your populace quickly expands. While you chucklingly smile at the land stained with blood and crushed dreams, that same egocentric thirst emerges, as you will want more. Take the land God rightfully promised you, by any means necessary.
Moreover, as your oversized group fiercely seizes more local communities and villages, you should intend to graciously contemplate more about the land you will finally receive. Make sure to pray and thank God amidst the bloodshed from the dead men, women, and children. “Thank you, God,” you will say, as the crimson liquid of displacement pools at your feet. “Let us have all of the land.” For the next few centuries, as you proudly die rich and your bloodline continues, repeat Steps 5 to 7, gradually pushing the expansive native peoples of the land to an embarrassingly small area of the country.
Finally, your great-great-great-grandchildren will take that little piece of land too, thoroughly erasing the native peoples’ culture, language, customs, and way of life. Your great-great-great-grandchildren’s unabashed actions will make you prideful as you believably rest in Heaven. Your people ultimately reign over the land, and the “uncivilized” peoples are now gone. At the end of this guide, you will have finally learned how to successfully colonize a land, all in the name of God.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A California-based artist with ten years of experience in poetry and the performing arts, Zoe Brown is a dual-enrolled high school senior transitioning into the financial sector. She aspires to leverage her background to provide tailored portfolio management and financial services for people with disabilities.
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