The Pohu Trap
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