Chapter 15 - The Evolution of Culture.md : Similarly, a rational meme's natural home is a dynamic society - more or less any dynamic society - because there the tradition of criticism (optimistically directed at problem-solving) will suppress variants of the meme with even slightly less truth. Moreover, the rapid progress will subject these variants to continually varying criteria of criticism, which again only deeply true memes have a chance of surviving. An anti-rational meme's natural home is a static society - not any static society, but preferably the one in which it evolved - for all the converse reasons. And therefore each type of meme, when present in a society that is broadly of the opposite kind, is less able to cause itself to be replicated. ### The Enlightenment #L3