But more importantly it’s a whole memetic egregore, and you can’t really get rid of the bad parts without rejecting the whole egregore. And you can get the good parts without most of the egregore
Can you say more to about why you believe this second part? It’s not at all straightforward to me how you pick and choose the good parts of an egregore to “get” them.
The dominant egregores are selected, so if you want to beat them, you need to out-compete them, which means you can’t just select on “goodness” as a criteria, you have to have a cohesive package that outcompetes the existing egregore.
Can you say more to about why you believe this second part? It’s not at all straightforward to me how you pick and choose the good parts of an egregore to “get” them.
The dominant egregores are selected, so if you want to beat them, you need to out-compete them, which means you can’t just select on “goodness” as a criteria, you have to have a cohesive package that outcompetes the existing egregore.