Smartness hinges on taking care of or addressing five fundamental items/aspects of life.

 

Smartness hinges on taking care of or addressing five fundamental items/aspects of life.

 

Just a view based on brash observations on the how and why of macro level dominations.

 

Not justifying domination per se or any of its ugly manifestations and/or consequences.

 

Domination comes through power and that comes through smartness.

 

Smartness does not consist in doing postmortem analysis and making or claiming predictions based on that but instead, smartness emerges from ' merely exploring and then exploring possibilities of future developments based ​on prevailing trajectory of trends.

 

The nations and races which did these, ended up leading  the world and then gradually dominated​ and sometimes loot​ed as well.

 

 

If we peep into the past the first dominators were the explorers who ventured out of their regions and found new terrains. They then started slowly exploiting whatever was newly available be it material or human resources​ or knowledge systems or traditions.

 

They knew in those times it was showing sometimes merely a domineering tone of uttering a different language as if they had landed from heaven and had some special right.

 

When they encountered a slightly sceptical and smarter population, they tried brutal power using crude weapons that they had and engaged in combat. 

 

Once having made an entry one had to start turning the leaf, it is the other way only in the case of accountancy and Adam and Eve story (i.e., you turn a leaf and make an entry). 

 

They turned the leaf one by one and understood that in most societies what held the societies cohesively emotionally together were​ five 5 major items, namely, food, language, culture, traditional practices, and belief systems [ these include resources, knowledge of utilising them, developing tools for enhancing easy, better and more access to these five aspects] 

 

People were generally nice to whoever appreciated those 5 aspects or showed keen interest in knowing and/or learning about those ​five 5 aspects. 

 

The colonisers feigned to show interest in the food of the natives, if found tasty, probed into the new ingredients, and started slowly looting those ingredients, then, as for the other four they started slowly supplanting, then implanting and finally, replacing as much as possible with the dominators​' versions of those ​four other aspects .