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The church example was only illustrative. The idea with both genetics and memetics is not that they are stagnant. Children aren’t clones, genetically or ideologically. But that the successive generations are descendants not displacements. To go back to the real example of my child’s school, which is attached to our Church, a tremendous amount has developed, from the technology in the classroom to the buildings to the curriculum. The idea is not stasis. But I also accept that the general positionality of the conservative is undesirable for a libertarian, but preference aside, my post is about taxonomy
I see descendants as very disruptive. I have one daughter that is very like my wife. One daughter that is like neither of us, but maybe like my mother in law or brother in law, and one daughter that is too young to guess. Neither I or my two siblings are anything like my parents in terms of occupation. Neither of my parents were like their parents in terms of occupation. Neither of my mothers parents were like their parents in terms of occupation. (i dont know much about my father's grandparents, but what little I've heard suggests the same pattern). I didn't marry some foreigner, I married someone that is at least three generation American, probably 5 or 6 generation, but they didn't fully keep track. My ancestors were once upper class Americans. They owned slaves, attended the revolutionary war state conventions as representatives, served as officers in that war, and then subsequently the civil war. We then became upper middle class Americans. Doctors, engineers, etc.
I've shared this sentiment on here before. I am American via ancestors that have been here approximately 400 years from England. I find the gatekeeping of people that arrived after my ancestors to be silly and pointless. This has always been a country of immigrants and memetics, and never a country of blood and genetics. I feel like WWII was the definitive answer to countries of genetics like Germany and Japan. We kicked both of their asses at the same time.
China is a country of genetics but not of memetics. They have bounced around to radically different philosophies as the ruling class has changed over the last century.
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