Some modes come in as fads and burn out quickly and are forgotten almost entirely Others become integrated and persist and eventually it's forgotten that they were even, contemporarily, fads
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So you can never quite tell when a new idea or behavior bursts into prominence whether it's just a fad or a revolution
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What determines whether an innovation persists? Is there any way to predict or explain this?
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What areas of life are more likely to be disrupted by innovations than others? Maybe: which elements of a culture are most highly conserved over time? (compare evolutionarily-conserved genes)
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I bet you could look at what parts of a non-European culture were retained (vs not retained) after industrialization and foreign contact Seems like language is highly conserved, religion somewhat less so, modes of production and daily life not much at al
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Need to sleep but this seems important May write this up Have more ideas, eg compare Albion's Seed cultures to their modern descendants
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I hear after the bombs, japan wemt so victorian they covered table legs with socks. Though i am a little drunk and could not be remembering this correctly at all tha kyou
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