Max: True. In hindsight, everything becomes much clearer. I didn't mean to suggest that if columbus were a truly moral individual he would've known subjugating the native americans was a bad idea. But if he were a smarter individual he might've realized they weren't indian.
Wasn't there something that said the mudokons used to lord their symbol on the moon over the glukkons? And that was why the glukkons used science to alter their hands to be more similiar to mudokons hands? Thus warping their bodies into a somewhat impractical caricature of their former selves? Maybe I'm imagining it. But I could've sworn that happened.
What I'm saying is that the Glukkons believed they needed to prove that they were better than the mudokons. Which would suggest that they viewed the mudokons as at least on equal footing. Industrialization would've been a way of altering the priorities of their worldview. Suddenly Moolah and business acumen are the measures of success, in which the Glukkons have much, and the mudokons have none. An inversion of their importance in the grand scheme of things I suppose.
The long and short of it being: I think the relationship between those two races is complicated. Although current Glukkons probably do consider mudokons the same way Columbus thought of Africans and Native Americans--as intelligent but savage animals. Animals that could be convinced to work for food or wages.
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