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I think it's more about American exceptionalism. The vault dwellers are so sure they're the only ones who can rebuild society, only for us to find out that 1) the "impure" surface dwellers already did it, and 2) vault tec is responsible for destroying that new society (or at least a critical part of it). You can tie that very clearly to colonialist justifications that destroying indigenous societies was good because they were "backward" unlike the supposedly enlightened west, and more recently neocolonial policies that continue to destroy the global south so it can be remade into a new frontier for capital