What's up with colonialism?

Yesterday marked the anniversary of Tibet's failed uprising against the Chinese. 

1959-2009. 50 years.

What's the point of taking over Tibet? The Chinese say they've modernized their world, set up a needed infrastructure, and dismantled the Dalai Lama's feudal system. Feudal system as in monk disciples? If anyone knows anything about the Dalai Lama, feudal lord is the last label on earth that could possibly fit.

So now that the Chinese have made things "better" in Tibet, the Tibetan way of life has almost disappeared (along with thousands of killed Tibetans). And now the Chinese live there, too. So the betterment was to make it hospitable for new settlers.

Sound familiar?

The West Bank, 

India,

Roman Empire,

"America,"

thousands more.

dictionary: "Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another."

Pretty pushy, isn't it? Why would one people want to be subjugated by another? (They don't.) More puzzling: why does one people want to subjugate another? (To conquer, to subdue.)

I want what you have, get lost. I don't want to hear your complaining, stifle. I don't like how you do your thing, conform.

Of course, you can't do this kind of thing unless you've got an army. And guns. Weapons, etc. 

And then they put bows and ribbons on it and say it's for everyone's best interest.

Any cosmic relief in here? It's a hard one.

Reversals. They happen. They have happened. Somehow the weaker prevail. Somehow the stronger lose their wind. Sometimes with enough opposition, the bullies back off. 

When someone more powerful yells: "Hey you! Cut that out!"

And the more powerful can be the small, but collected. 

All the small ones saying at once: "Hey you! Cut that out!"

Critical mass becoming a fierce Tibetan deity ferocious enough to incite terror in evil spirits.

It's an ocean of grief. With a world halted like a ship without a sea.