“Many luxuries are culture-specific. They are desired within a culture but not without. Group selection has no way to eliminate the growth of such luxuries because migration never responds to the difference of consumption in these items. Therefore, a distinction should be made between “universal luxury” and “provincial luxury”. Universal luxuries are desired by all human beings; provincial luxuries, only by a group of people. Group selection suppresses universal luxuries, but leaves provincial luxuries free to grow. This explains why culture was so diverse across pre-industrial societies despite the monotony of life (measured by universal luxury).”

On the one hand, he saw that the Americans, wishing to be left alone and to live their lives according to their own democratic wishes, had selected such men as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to lead them. The French, being a bloodthirsty mob, had quickly shunted aside Mirabeau in favor of increasingly radical and violent men, like Danton, Marat, and Robespierre.

“A few months ago I freed myself from standard-procedure society, I broke the chains of fear that kept me locked up into the system. Since then, I see the world from a different perspective: the one that everything is going through change and that most of us are unware of that. Why is the world changing? In this post I’ll point out the 8 reasons that lead me to believe it.”