judiciousimprecation:

argumate:

argumate:

the memetic evolution of modern beliefs may seem capricious and arbitrary but gosh have you looked at the twisted random walk taken by any major religion lately or the way that imperial and national ideologies were batted about like beach balls in the wind of economic change.

every system that actually functions in practice is a hodgepodge of pragmatic compromises and weird hacks that were adopted for circumstantial reasons way back when and are now considered a load-bearing part of the infrastructure.

evolution looks about the same whether it’s biological, mechanical, or ideological

So paradigm shifts are the punctuation in punctuated equilibrium then