Indulged and entitled; greatly advantaged and blessed by:
A temperate climate conducive to working ourselves to an early grave - from child workers to some of the most appalling work conditions ever seen!
Coal, iron ore and abundant other resources boosted our comfort, to sell our products and enrich ourselves - really the owners.
Our island nation gave us a seafaring advantage over other nations. It enabled us to explore the globe, to engage in piracy under Elizabeth 1 against upstart nations like Spain.
Our sailors, vessels, our experience of piracy and exploring other lands led to claiming them for our monarchs ruling on behalf of the one and only God.
Well, after all, we were the biggest and most powerful Empire God's humanity has ever seen - so far, over 500 years, as now we are part of the American Superpower.
The inhabitants of our newly claimed lands must have blessed their lucky stars at being discovered by our brave sailors and soldiers.
But even greater good fortune was to come their way. We soon exported the pagan natives to our new colonies in America and the Caribbean. They worked for free to ensure that profits in abundance came to the British landed gentry.
Somehow, the upper-crust British aristocrats of the 1914 Parliament took us to world war to defend a Bosnian-Serb nationalist that had assassinated the heir and his wife to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.
Only we British public school types could have been so sharp and intelligent to land ourselves on the wrong, guilty side!
And fancy taking us to war over the killing of an up and coming Emperor and his wife. It took all the skill and nous of our upstanding military and politicians to turn a local crime into a global war.
Well, actually fears and paranoia, alliances and treaties and the dreaded European empire rivalries based on their Bible, as in our Coronation ceremony.
These wars demanded the exploitation of oil and coal. But, perhaps because of them, we grew rich beyond measure and, on the back of unwaged, captured and treated as less than human, these chattels, these objects always and constantly subject to coercion, force and violence.
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