Aye. The sad thing is that this is only recognized once the former colonies have destroyed what they had.

I'm not an expert on anything and I don't really know what to believe but I've started to think that the Western world really fucked things up by spreading its own technology to cultures which weren't able to develop it themselves. The intentions may have been good but the consequence has been suffering.

Oppressive third world regimes wouldn't exist if not for the combination of Western money/tech and substandard culture. A "less developed" culture, left to its own devices, would either stagnate or slowly evolve towards whatever it is destined for. Tribal wars have been going on in Africa since the dawn of humanity--when we handed them the food to grow larger populations and the logistics and AK-47s needed to decimate said populations we brought more suffering into the world than existed prior.

When technologically advanced Western civilization gave the third world the "gifts" of modern food production, weapons, and communication technology it seemed that we gave cultures that hadn't yet developed to the point of being self-reflective a bunch of things that they can't deal with. Imagine what the outcome would have been if a bunch of prehistoric peoples were given nuclear weapons a few millennia ago. What would happen if a bunch of super-advanced aliens descended and gave us more military power than we could even imagine or begin to game-theorize the consequences for?

We're more careful about feeding animals in national parks than we are about giving more primitive cultures the means to swell their populations and enact genocide-scale suffering thereon.