The marine technocracy of the Austronesians v God's Chosen People

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/easter-island-collapse/

4:00  The Austronesian peoples were the technocrats of their time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_peoples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catamaran

8:00  Jews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_languages

14:00  Easter Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island

21:00  The iconoclastic statue-toppling of the Easter Islanders

22:00  The Easter Islanders never lived in city-states and barely developed their writing. Literacy is key to allowing the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next.

23:00  Europeans had the rule of law.

24:00  Successful imperialism can only exist with the rule of law based on a moral system. 

25:00  Religion is a form of human organisation. 

The amnesia and dementia of the Easter Islanders who had forgotten their origins and could no longer do what their ancestors did

26:00  Idolatry is its own punishment.