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  How do you guilt trip a country into underachievement in order to maintain your own monopoly on technological, scientific and strategic domain? Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the PoHu Trap. The human species, over the last 100K years, have slowly but surely added layers to the basic evolutionary cycle that every other lifeform on this planet follows. These layers lead to the formation of what we call cultures. Of course, based on a myriad of factors like religion, history, climate, geography and natural/man-made events, different places in the world have their own cultural trajectory. In a way, the history of humanity has been the history of the quest for cultural domination, be it through peace or war. In this process, the forces of globalization and nationalism have gained the upper hand alternately. In a Post-WorldWar2 world, the globalizing elite developed various strategies to maintain and increase their hegemony in the military, financial, scientific and the techno-indu

  "Peace of Mind" is the general reply we tend to get when we ask people about their ultimate goal in life these days. Do they really believe it? Well, most of them say it to look smart, cultured, even under peer pressure, and due to several other factors. Correct me if I am wrong!! But even the few of them who really think attaining Peace opens a whole "new" dimension of experience, are in fact lying to themselves. The present generation has far more resources at their helm as compared to their forefathers? But, can we say we are more peaceful than them today? If not, why is "peace of mind" still a luxury or fantasy that we dream of? Not trying to think a lot ahead of ourselves, let's try few simple examples. ** Can one eat in a foreign land if one is not peaceful within themselves? ** Can one sleep in a trekking camp somewhere in the middle of the jungle, if one is not peaceful? The point is - being "Peaceful" is the minimum requirement for