3 quotes.

• Robert Greene from The Laws of Human Nature, “the longer a group exists and the larger it grows, the more conservative it will become.”

• Thucydides, one of the first historians, writes in the History of the Peloponnesian War, “What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.”

• John M. Barry, a more recent historian, writes in The Great Influenza, “Uncertainty follows distrust, fear follow uncertainty, and, under conditions such as these, terror follows fear.”

1 Hypothesis

• The more defined a culture a group has, the more it will fear the unknown and disruptive nature of a competing a rising culture.

1 Question

• What if we just learned to stay more nimble?