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But TikTok is also the closest thing we have to a digital town square that isn’t yet colonized by billionaires with political agendas.

Instead of the colonizing of other territories and peoples, hegemons act to dominate other countries economically and militarily – and perhaps ideologically and politically, as well.

I was a middle-class kid from New Jersey, but like a poultice, this ancient, colonized country drew out an answering difference from my bones.

Its colonizing project was carried out just as other colonized peoples were throwing off their rulers.

“Born too late to afford a home, and too early to colonize Mars” is among their slogans.