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 looted 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 .
