And are you saying that without white empire, all the humans would be happy fauns prancing in Arcady? Two things Western culture absorbed from Athens and Jerusalem which continues to invigorate it more than any other culture: an openness to new technologies and observations and a vigorous tradition of criticism from within. I will wait patiently while you look for other cultures and societies with the same attributes to roughly the same degree. Good luck looking; I think you'll need it.