Another widely held concept by the public and constantly drummed into their heads is that Nations prosper because of Scientific Research
The other day while sitting and watching TV I heard a talkshow in which they were discussing that why is such and such country backward, and why is America a super-power. And the most prevalent opinion among some others was that US is a super power because of its scientific progress, the other being that its progress is due to democracy and equal rights.
Anyways this got me into thinking that is this really so, I mean this is what even the US is always telling the other nations that if you give equal rights you will progress and by heavily investing in science you will be like us. This idea is even exported to those countries who have been the enemies of America.
Consider this, You believe that you are a self-made man (in a world where might is right) having worked through the problems in your life, defeated your enemies and now are looked at as the leader. Would you give out your secrets to anyone if you knew that you are never going to die, rather you will try your utmost to mis-guide others because if you were to give out your secrets you would have competition and would be replaced. Same is the case with America, she considers herself to be supreme having the most superior ideology would America be so naive as to reveal all her secrets why she is great ... DEFINITELY NOT
However, if you were to look closely you will realize that America is a super power because she has a world view, she considers herself as the leader of nations, so she plans for all the possible threats that can come her way. In short she has a global vision and that global vision demands a global foreign policy. So you see that America has experts in all fields of life, for all the different nations it sees as threats.
Consider this ... USA's DoD (department of defense) realized that if it was to dominate the world into accepting its rule it needed to have weapons that could coerce them into submission, so it developed the ICBMs and the GPS, the F-16s and the Space Shuttles, it needed Computers to perform the calculations so it developed computers. Now consider this, Ethiopia a small nation never even thought of dominating world so without that vision could it even begin to think it needs a GPS system !!!
Moral: What you cannot think, you can plan for, what you cannot plan for you cannot do ... so basically its the foreign policy that makes the nations what they are
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