Yes, in the case of hard science I think there is a good defense here, as it has an empirically demonstrable trend to get closer to the truth with time. However, I don't think this same defense could easily be applied to other areas of belief.
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Not getting stuck is only good if the thing you're going to move onto is better than what you've got going now. For many cultural views, it seems plausible that it would have been better if we became "stuck" many decades ago.
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Authoritarian systems can have, and have had, means of changing prescribed views. It's just that the views are changed by a central authority rather than the masses. And for many aspects of worldview it isn't self evident that we need a great deal of change and adaption.
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Ultimately it's an empirical question; can a central authority set up to find truth better than what wins in a marketplace of ideas? The dysfunctions of the MoI are pretty evident - people group with beliefs that generate cohesion and max status and capture information orgs.
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Hard to say what traps central authority might fall into since any examples have been in a defensive war for centuries.
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A Holy Inquisition is always needed but so is a sane religion
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You can tell a lot faster than that; people flock to good religions when they're available. The problem is that the religion's memetic immune system deteriorates over time as it accumulates antibodies to non-existent threats and pathogens evolve novel infiltration strategies.
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That's late stage degeneration; men failing to get wives, women failing to get husbands so they flock to a religion that promises to tear everything down.
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