What culture you cultivate is just one variable. Go to Japan or Iran or Italy and they will fall over each other, telling you how great their culture was and wh

What culture you cultivate is just one variable. Go to Japan or Iran or Italy and they will fall over each other, telling you how great their culture was and what it cultivated. When things are relatively stable, it's not hard to lean on the Explore side of the Explore-Exploit tradeoff. When things are ever changing, and at faster and unpredictable rates the tradeoff naturally gets much more complex. You have to ride the waves. No one really controls them.