¶ Divide and Conquer Sequence
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Many more. And then the king said to someone else, I’m going to cut your head off! Mr. King, big mistake. And the king said whay. I know how to make-- I know metallurgy and I know how to make better swords than anybody in the world. Can you prove it?.. And you make me a beautiful sword, absolutely lovely. Then the king says, You just make swords, you understand? So this man: you just keep the accounts, you know how the mathematics goes. But you mind your business. You mind your business. And you mind your business. Is that good and clear? I’m the only one who minds everybody’s business. This is simply how it went to divide and conquer the intellectuals. And it really became such a powerful matter, with the control of the big powerful men who would go and hunt with him, and then the intellectuals giving him all this information and producing beautiful tools.
“And then his kingdom got bigger and bigger. And he wanted to project that and let his son carry on. So he said, I see you’re getting very old. Now I want you to teach something about that metallurgy; and I want you to teach something about that language… And this is the foundation of Oxford University.”
