¶ Divide and Conquer Sequence
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"that either. Instinctively the he said: Divide and Conquer. Very fundamental.
"now he says, ‘We would like to go hunting and these animals are big and ferocious and I can’t handle that animal all by myself. But what we can do is reverse divide-and-conquer and we’ll gang up on the animal. See, the animal does not know how to divide us.’
"And that’s what hunting was. So they all gang up on the animal and were able to kill him and then they had a great feast. They said, ‘There is just enough for us big guys here. You other people eat roots.’
"This is history and you will find that the king and all the great nobles were always hunting and fighting. They claimed all the animals belonged to the king and the nobles. Other people were not allowed to touch them. Even up to 1810 in England, we find a man could still be hung without trial for killing a rabbit because it belonged to the king. This is true up until very recently. The animals belong to the strong.
"So we have this big man, and now they have had some good hunting, and he is a young king, and they say to him, ‘Very frequently we have invaders trying to chisel in on our animals and our food here.’
¶ Citations
- Univ. of Chicago Lecture, pp.1-2, 5 May’72
