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Darwinism generally arises in a world of fitness where reproduction is the dominating force. That is if politicians reproduced while in office to form more poli
by dwohnitmok 6y ago
Darwinism generally arises in a world of fitness where reproduction is the dominating force. That is if politicians reproduced while in office to form more politicians and reproduction among politicians was the main source of new politicians then yes we might have reason to believe that seeking re-election is an emergent behavior from basic survival.
However, that's not the way politics works.
There is a stable equilibrium where politicians are constantly replenished by the larger population as they leave office, which holds true as t approaches infinity. And indeed this is more or less what we observe in Western societies.
- dwaltrip 6y agoBehavior can “reproduce” when it is copied by (or taught to) others. There are a variety of selective factors that make it more likely for certain copied behaviors to “survive” and then be copied further. This is cultural evolution. Of course, much complexity is uncovered when you dig into the details. It isn’t a perfect analogy but it seems very useful.
- dwohnitmok 6y agoBy the time we're talking about things like cultural evolution and memetic propagation, we're getting pretty close to just talking about ideology again.