The Strength of Us Versus Them
This paper is published during an era where the dominant global empire is founded and (mostly) run on principles opposite to ethnocentrism, at least internally.<p>All of the current POTUS&#x27; grandparents were born in Europe, and the previous one&#x27;s father was Kenyan. The most famous entrepreneur of our generation was born of Syrian parents. The wealthiest self-made woman in America according to Forbes (I did have to Google it), Marian Ilitch, had Macedonian parents.<p>The best strategy in the Iterated Prisoner&#x27;s Dilemma is tit-for-tat [1]. The winning groups of today have found ways to cooperate-cooperate systematically, overriding the advantages conferred by the behaviour observed in the paper.<p>[1] It gets more interesting when both sides know how the other thinks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intelligence.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;ProgramEquilibrium.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intelligence.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;ProgramEquilibrium.pdf</a>