cultural evolution
Significance
Humans are to a large degree defined by our cultures, which have evolved over long periods of time, and are evolving still.
Original Writings
- Developmental Levels
- Developmental Levels as Evolving Social Structures
- Core Design Principles for The Efficacy of Groups
- Evolution and Its Implications
- Human Culture and its Evolution
- Patterns of Human Cooperation
- Rebuilding Trust in Our Large Institutions
- Religion, Storytelling and Art
- The Systemic Era
- What Does It Mean to be Human?
- Understanding Human History
- Cooperation, Competition and Coercion
- Have We Passed The Point of Maximum Useful Tech?
- Talking Openly about Hierarchy
- A Broadcast Consciousness
- Life is Complicated
- The Personal vs. The Institutional
- Citizen Kane vs. Citizen Bailey
- Help! Help! The Robots are Coming!
- Can the US Become a Truly Egalitarian Society?
- A Practopian Approach to Gun Issues in the US
- The Progressive Path Forward – A 12-State Strategy
- Building a Case for the Detective Story
- Apollo 11 – 2019 film
- Christmas Must Be Tonight
- Diving Back Into Our American Muddle
- Lessons to be Learned from the Fall of Afghanistan
- A Traditional Remedy for the Facebook Problem: Competition
- 8 Big Lessons We Can Learn from the Pandemic
Quotations
- All the World's Cultures Now Available to Us
- Ancient ethnic sores belching fire
- The Arc of History
- Authentic cultures
- The Awesome Power of Culture
- Belief is the end of Observation
- Between-group selection became the primary evolutionary force
- the biological evolution of Homo sapiens was usurped by socio-cultural evolution
- The brightest goat in the herd
- Changing the World
- Chaos and Mediocrity
- Counter-Culture's own values and aesthetics decayed
- Cultural, as opposed to biological, evolution
- Culture can be either mutualistic or predatory
- Cultures as a kind of mental infection
- The Discomfort of Thought
- Egocentric Existence
- The entire pageant of human history
- The Eternal Struggle for Human Rights
- Evolutionary success and individual suffering
- The Extent of Freedom in All of its Dimensions
- Fear of Missing Out
- The Fragile Constructs of History
- From a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural
- The historical trajectory of violence
- History is something very few people have been doing
- Homophobia
- Human imagination more than biological reality
- If the future of humanity is decided in your absence
- I'll take the big sordid dirty crooked city
- I must study politics and war
- Inextricably Linked in Freedom
- Institutions must advance and keep pace with the times
- Levels of Development
- Luxuries tend to become necessities
- The Makers of Things
- Man's nature is an open, constantly evolving system
- Merely Thoroughly Outrageous
- Moral Religion
- Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis
- Myths are stronger than anyone could have imagined
- Never Knew Cocaine to Improve Anything
- No single natural way of life for Sapiens
- Only a Human Being
- The only dependable things are humility and looking
- Our long-term personal and societal goals
- Our Social Order Now in a State of Permanent Flux
- Our species does represent a new evolutionary process
- Push Outward
- The Real Problem of Humanity
- Religions are great bushy trees
- Sixties Surpluses of Money and Time
- The system has been shaping and reshaping our minds
- These principles have no objective validity
- This Highest Kind of Religious Feeling
- Those who tolerate or encourage evil
- Thralls to group instincts
- The time-worn yoke of their opinions
- The Toxic Mix of Religion and Tribalism
- An ultracultural species is born
- A vast repository of information learned and passed down from previous generations
- The way the hammer shapes the hand
- We have the capacity to envision a better future and make it a reality
- Why study history?
- You have your position because of the events of history