Any criticism for my History Hypothesis?

[Athena]

Off base on so many points it is hard to categorize them.

For example, you ignore the element of "right place at the right time."
Take Tesla. He championed AC but did not have the backing or infrastructure to do anything with it.
Edison, on the other hand, had all the backing and infrastructure he needed, but championed DC current.
Edison came around and is a lynch pin in history. Tesla is footnote.

You also sling racism around as the mud patch in your leaking dam. IF you are going to use it as one of your driving forces, what exactly do you mean? How do you measure it? Why s "racism" stronger in bad economic times than in good ones? What does this say about the true nature of what you want to call racism? Is it a racial issue or a personal one? If "ALL politics is local" then is ALL politics personal? Why do you easily tolerate some racism while denouncing others?

Your final conclusion makes for good television "March of Time" but you hedge your bet too much to make it useful. "History is a march forward BUT it is also cyclical. That way I can explain all the things that don't fit my model." Pliable, but hardly academic.

You have the ideas, but you need to hammer them out a bit more. take a step back from the "talking 'bout my generation" mentality. That is what a true historian needs to do.