Comment by Anotheroneagain
12 days ago
Well this is just like humans. Totalitarian societies don't produce great creative work.
Conservative societies tend to be formed by conservative thinkers, who are more prone to discarding imperfect or weird ideas, but in the amount of useful output may exceed more liberal thinkers.
Any examples?
Consider how the west ruled the world as long as it stayed conservative, but since the 70s or so Asia began taking over. It's only an illusion that liberal societies experience more progress, in fact it's more a pointless churn from the rapid uncritical adoption and abandonment of ideas.
A conservative society goes: How about doing X? Oh no,that would be silly.
A liberal society goes: How about doing X? Yes, that's what we needed!
Did anybody say X? X!
X, X, X, X, X!
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Do you remember how we all did X in ##? Yeah, what were we thinking?