Why do we humans inherit and pass along ideas and other memes that are not actually good for us or the society we live in?
To appreciate the way in which socially replicable phenomena
(besides market inequities) need not be functioning only for the sake of the
humans who reproduce them, one need only consider such things as dogma,
clichés, superstitions, scientific and artistic ruts, bureaucratic formalities,
feuds, and war. At times we all reproduce these things despite our best
interests. There is a real pressure to do so in order to maximize the local
fitness or effectiveness of our own social interactions: we are more or less
bound to pursue our most immediate ends by immediately available means.
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