Ignorance is not an accident. It’s architecture.
When the West teaches only its own reflection,
It doesn’t educate the world. It erases it.
We’re told civilization began in Athens, progress in London, and freedom in Washington,
So that every other story sounds like a footnote.
That’s how empire survives, not by conquest, but by curriculum.
They teach children to worship Columbus and Churchill,
But erase the names of those who survived them.
They call their own violence "civilization,"
While calling the memory of the colonized "myth."
The curriculum is not just a lesson plan.
It is a map of who is allowed to exist.
Generations are taught to think the map ends where Europe begins.
The rest is "developing," "emerging," "primitive," "traditional."
Words that turn history into hierarchy.
But truth has a longer memory than textbooks.
The pyramids stood when Plato was a rumor.
Mesopotamia mapped the stars before Rome learned to count.
The Mahabharata was recited before Homer dreamed of Troy.
China's bureaucracy functioned through merit when Europe was still a forest of tribes.
Vietnam had written law before France had a king.
Persia built roads and postal systems before London had walls.
The Maya aligned temples to the cosmos while Europe still feared the sea.
Timbuktu’s scholars debated the soul before Europe remembered it had one.
Great Zimbabwe raised stone cities while Europe still built with wood.
And across Africa and Asia alike, people planted rice, wove silk, carved bronze, and measured time, not to conquer nature, but to live in rhythm with it.
They don’t teach that because it breaks the spell,
The illusion that Europe’s past is humanity’s future.
The world was never uncivilized.
And now, it’s speaking again.
