That is the paradox of imperialism. As long as the colonized are under the imperial cosh, they can never truly be ready, because the authority to run their own affairs, responsibly or not, was taken away from them.
这是帝国主义的一个悖论。只要被殖民者身处帝国统治之下，他们就不可能真正准备好，因为自主的威权——不论是否负责——已经从他们中间抽走了。