"You can arm yourself, alarm yourself but there is no where you can run. 'Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun".

Not to speak of those whose superior technology of the time allowed them to enriched themselves and their countries from the enslavement of other humans (still in effect today) and theft of property. I say who is the most intelligent, those who live in harmony with the environment or those who destroy the earth and other humans for the sake of something shiny.