History Generation II: Religions & Cults devblog! ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/2013/01/2
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Have you done much research into the cargo cults? Fascinating. There's a great bit in The God Delusion about how they emerge.
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@bjzaba_ Maybe one day I'll add cargo cults, at least, for the civilizations that are cut off from the rest of the world...
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Evolutionary in the sense of cultural evolution, and memetics.
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@bjzaba_ As much as I like Dawkins, I'm not a big fan of the 'meme'; I think it is an interesting idea in some contexts, but at the same...
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@bjzaba_ I think it misses a lot of depth, and simplifies (rationalizes?) a lot of very complicated social processes!
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You might be right there, in a sense of the "meme as a unit of culture". That is indeed reductionist.