[Polybius]

How could a few thousand white Europeans, from the 16th Century to the early 20th Century dominate the Americas, Africa and much of Asia?

By having far superior weaponry, not by having white skin.

There is a lesson there.

[longtermmemmory]

Didn’t you see “Connections”?

Social mobility and the ability to take various parts and make connections.

In china a gardner saw the king napping in the garden throne. The gardner covered him with the king’s robe.

When the king awoke and asked who covered him, and was told it was the gardner, the king had the gardner executed for exceeding his station.