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Fashion is a simple way to describe it, I was looking for deeper analysis. Political influence, past fad fatigue and/or economic dry up (when the system has tri
by agumonkey 5y ago
Fashion is a simple way to describe it, I was looking for deeper analysis. Political influence, past fad fatigue and/or economic dry up (when the system has tried a new thing long enough it kinda wants to seek other paths, energy and belief flows naturally there, until a new slowdown occurs).
- rendall 5y agoI suspect it's chaotic and non-linear along many dimensions if it can be quantified at all.
- Jtsummers 5y agoYou may be interested in the idea of memetics. Whether it's really "correct" in any absolute sense, there are some interesting ideas and models there for things like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics