The greatest risk is standing still while the world changes around us.
Colonialism didn't end, it just changed its clothes.
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.
Innovation is not just about creating something new; it's about improving what already exists.