[marktwain]

All the tech in the world without the morality and freedom to use it wisely means NOTHING.

Look at all the countries in the world without what made America great that have borrowed tech are still oppressive hellholes.

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Exactly. All the major tech which lead to the Industrial Revolution was available in India and China before being passed through the Islamic states to Christendom.

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Those ideological systems passed on serious innovation with print, paper, the compass, gunpowder, and sea-faring exploration which was repeatable and exploitable.

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Christendom took those innovation and built the modern world with them. Christendom is/was based on a reverence for the truth. The combination of a reverence for the truth brought about the reformation and renaissance, which resulted in Science and the Industrial Revolution.

[bert]

Rather than Christendom, another choice of words would be White Europeans.