If you wanted to be super holy you could go live in a monastery. Great for society; bad for the guy who wants power because of his superior holiness - so that got discarded. Now one *can* signal holiness and get power. The right pic there is a memetic cancerous mutation. 2/2
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A population's genes can change fairly quickly in various circumstances. One historically-new thing since 1750 is the demographic transition. Within a few generations, instead of 30%-50% of children dying, nearly all live. Seems like it might cause big genetic changes to me.pic.twitter.com/tqfMzjEhOY
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My story fits the facts better; it's not that the progressive types were those who used to die in childhood - whole families converted because the socially destructive memeplex is personally advantageous in gaining status (but disastrous for leaving descendants).
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