i thought that this may not only give us a broader understanding of the challenge of decolonization in the twentieth century to global capitalism, and therefore a broader understanding how capitalism has reshaped itself. But i thought that it would also play use roll in terms of the make of political intervention in this, the broader culture wars that we have,. You know, in the ucanan, of course, you have it there in the us. That was the way the was weaponized. And so all of it had a role in facilitating what i considered to be the corps function of empire, which is the extraction, transfer and accumulation of resources across vast international spaces.