For instance, just consider the metameme of secular modern life, which in fact originates in Renaissance art through the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century and the Enlightenment of the 18th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, amidst the full melee of cars and electric lights, most people were still adherents of traditional religions and worldviews. Hundreds of years after the emergence of a metameme that is so strong it mercilessly shreds its way through history, most people still haven’t downloaded its cultural code. Even today, the majority of the world’s population, by
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So we have stages and codes...this is similar to spiral dynamics. So how does it differ from stages?
This states that there is a cognitive stage development and a symbolic development. Don't they go hand in hand?
The cognitive is solely individual; the symbolic is cultural (and maybe more).
I like the metaphor of zooming in on a certain quadrant then continuing with the quadrants within the specific quadrant.
