"But it was ANYTHING BUT stupidity that subsequently enabled them to pull it off."
Another one sucked into thinking the Americans landed on the moon in 1969 !
So much woke stuff happening in the world the average human believes everything told to them , I even got sucked into taking two covid jabs .
As for Captain Cook he lived in a different time with different cultural values , can not say what his motives were , but do not think he is the racist some portray him to be .