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The final result was simple.  The Carthaginian meme died out,
replaced  by  that  of  Rome.    Carthage's  language    disappeared.    Her
religion was forgotten.  Her great men became historical obscurities.
Even one of her most glorious trading colonies in Spain--Gades--lost
her Carthaginian name.  Henceforth she would be known as just
Cadiz.92
The phenomenon is not restricted to ancient times.  Humans in
the modern era are still motivated by the primordial pecking order
rule: friends flock to the bird on top; they shun and even abuse the bird
on the bottom.  This simple principle has cropped up in the recent
history of America.
When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, the achievement
made two statements.   It broadcast Russia's growing military power.
The rocket was an adaptation of an intercontinental ballistic missile,
something the U.S. didn't have at the time.  Suddenly the Soviets were
in a position to annihilate North American cities with nuclear weapons.
The launch of Sputnik also announced that America was no longer the
undisputed master of world technology.  Militarily and scientifically,
the Soviet Union had taken a massive leap up the hierarchical ladder.
And America had been nudged a wee bit down.
The result in the third world was electrifying.  Small nations
rapidly fled from the nation they felt was slipping and stampeded to
the side of the superorganism shinnying up the pole.   Third world
newspapers  dripped with hatred of America and gloated over her
humiliation.  "Russians Rip American Face" screamed a headline in
Bangkok's  Sathiraphab.  A professor in Beirut, Lebanon, said his
students were so jubilant, "You would have thought they launched it
themselves."93  In third world minds, the Soviet triumph was helping
the downtrodden nations vicariously trounce the beast on top--
America.
Sputnik was not the only event of that era to telegraph a Soviet
rise.  In 1949, a group of Marxist-Leninists were cheered on by the
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