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What if we humans had a predisposition to "Cargo-Cult" in order to strive to advance our race? Some sort of memetic gene. A sort of selfish gene if you will. P
by AJRF 10y ago
What if we humans had a predisposition to "Cargo-Cult" in order to strive to advance our race? Some sort of memetic gene. A sort of selfish gene if you will.
People would argue striving to be like a TED speaker or Kim Kardashian or (INSERT_CELEB_NAME_HERE) is superficial, dumb and shallow. Yet those people are better positioned to survive given our society doesn't change.
I would be interested to see if their was some sort of Event that drastically changed our world, would we worship hunter-gatherer style traits again?
I think yes.
- rusk 10y agoSounds like you're describing the distinction between Fiedler's Task Oriented vs Relationship Oriented Leader at a sociological level, but we can see these distinctions at organisational level already. Different orgs favour different styles of leadership personality depending on what kind of environment the org is operating in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiedler_contingency_model A yet more fine-grained model is provided by Vroom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vroom–Yetton_decision_model It's horses for courses. Its as much about the leader suiting the org and taking it where it needs to go, as it is about the org being led. In your example, I'm taking "celebrities" as leaders; Kim Kardashian for instance being "Relationship Oriented" and perhaps reflecting the desire of her followers for maintaining stability and comfort. The rougher, more "Hunter Gatherer" style traits, perhaps channelled by modern political personalities perhaps reflect followers who are in more uncertain circumstances and who are looking for economic growth and an stabilisation of their situation.
- ed_balls 10y agomirror neurons