First, they arrived to avoid persecution. But when they established their homes, they set about eliminating the indigenous, because the indigenous were not like them.
Then they cut down the forests and homes of the wildlife, that the indigenous needed for life; because those interfered with the invaders’ farming. They cared not for the indigenous, who helped them survive.
Then, they brought enslaved humans to work for them, and they cared not for the welfare of those enslaved. They eliminated the indigenous, whose land they expropriated, for the building of towns and cities. Because they said that they “discovered it” and were “entitled” to it. Because those “others were not like them.”
Then, they enslaved their own women, to be used as chattel, and indentured brooders to pollute the newly-obfuscated territory, because they said that they “were entitled” to expand their culture to the horizon. They eliminated that which was not in their culture, because those were not like they wanted.
Then, they introduced technology, to pollute, to enslave, and destroy everything that they originally loved (which was taught by the indigenous), for the sake of “progress”. Because what was there “didn’t fit our future of Progress”. They were dazzled by their own glitz, and anything else “was not what they wanted”.
Then, they made highways; from rivers, from mountain passes, from lakes and wetlands. Converting everything they touched, for the sake of “convenience” and “efficiency". Because it was Progress.
Then they demeaned the poor of their race, along with all others of other races. Because they were “not like us, and therefore inferior”. Subjugation and “Racial purity”, the unsaid doctrine of “Progress”.
Then they destroyed the land, seeking minerals that were given priority over the environment’s riches. Minerals that were used for one thing — “Progress”. They left the land, wasted and corrupted, because they “were entitled” to. In the name of “Progress”.
Then they turned attention to their own. They enslaved those who became demeaned, became indebted, forced into ignorance by interests whose only desire was accumulation of the phantasm of riches and “power”. Because they were not like us, they became perpetual slaves, by the bedazzling of the false promises of “improvement of life.” But they were not like us — they are slaves by thought, by finance, by belief, by choice.
Then they turned to the distrust of each other; the competition to “have it all”. To cheat, to steal, to murder, to eviscerate — all in the name of “Entitlement” to be “Number 1”. To rape their public of everything; to discard children as “bothersome”, and as “threats to my future”; to discard functioning technology in favor of the “Newest doodad”, just to 1-up the competition. Because they were “not like me”.
Then they turned on their own progeny, because they did not understand, or approve of, the “Progress” of my version of “Humanity’s Entitlements”. The progeny were indoctrinated into Grift, Sleaze, Graft, Plagiarism, Murder, Disregard of the Common Good, and Self-Enrichment, whatever the cost.
Then they saw the “house of cards” collapse. And they turned against their trusted people, who in turn, turned against them. And then they eliminated, one against another. And then they eyed the one survivor, and said, “Do I REALLY Trust You?!”