Recombinant Growth Means That There Will Always Be New Ways To Fail, As Well As To Survive

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

Why Do Nations Fail? 

[Don't Expect This To Tally All The Ways]

Recombinant growth means that there will always be new ways to fail, as well as infinite ways to survive.

It boils down to a race against one's own half-life clocks. Do we instil methods for circumventing our own Phenotypic Persistence (e.g., institutional/bureaucratic momentum) FAST ENOUGH .... or do we not?

Here's my simple take.

For any aggregate to survive, the half-life of indirect cultural recombinations must remain shorter than the half-life of taboos, old and emerging (i.e., instances of Phenotypic Persistence).

Ta-boo or not ta-boo. The mundane secrets to Adaptive Rate. :)