They used to behead kings. And very often what followed was beheading the people who behead kings. And then we'd behead those that would behead the people that

They used to behead kings. And very often what followed was beheading the people who behead kings. And then we'd behead those that would behead the people that beheaded the king. A culture doesn't progress just because it changes. It is not uncommon for complex systems to undergo changes that make them self-destructive. You talk about evolution, but the reproductively dominant cell in a complex organism is the cancer cell. It is entirely plausible that western culture would become non-viable because of "cancel(/r) culture". And that cultures of the future would look in it the same way we look at organisms with poor tumor suppression mechanisms. And that too shall be evolution.