All social evolution: 1) Catastrophe (natural or human made) 2) Institution invented to manage if it ever…
All social evolution:
1) Catastrophe (natural or human made)
2) Institution invented to manage if it ever happens again
3) Institution governs human behaviour, sometimes for generations
4) Absence of further catastrophe makes institution seem like ‘red tape’
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5) Eventually nobody alive remembers why the institution was put there
6) Institution dismantled in the name of ‘freedom’
7) Catastrophe re-emerges. Go to 1).
Institutions are the suffering of the past acting in the present.
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