Historically, we do have examples of it working though : https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-the-rise-of-christianity https://www.astralcodexten.com/p

Historically, we do have examples of it working though : https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-the-rise-of-christianity https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-the-rise-of-chr... https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-early-christian-strategy https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-early-christian-strateg... Though in our case it's a much harder issue : How do you make and keep a powerful polity while staying militarily weak ? (Tanks / planes / nukes not being an option in a society that decided to de-industrialize.) This also involves population : a post-industrial society, is likely to have its military strength based on population (like pre-industrial societies did, where agriculturalists overwhelmed hunter-gatherers) : how do you keep your population low without becoming weak ? (Christian polities didn't exactly stay meek, more like the opposite (after a while)...) At least values can be transmitted memetically, without genetical lineage, so keeping a stable national population is probably the least unworkable issue as long as immigration and assimilation are high enough...