Skinner, Stewart, Wilson on Deliberate Culture

My analysis of cultural drift has (at least) three distinctive elements:We have a big problem: we broke our process for the evolution of (not in) cultures.Instead of reviving blind evolution, it might be better to evolve deliberatelyI have three concrete ideas for institutional mechanisms of deliberate evolution.I asked an LLM for book authors who have also made my #2 point, on deliberate cultural evolution. It gave 3: Skinner (’71), Stewart (’00), Wilson (’19). All seem to understand the nature of cultural evolution, all argue for working harder to understand and think in terms of evolution, all say we might plausibly win in evolutionary terms if we were to more consciously manage cultural evolution, and all say to do this at least in part via governance.But none of them offer concrete mechanism solutions re how to induce governance leaders to effectively manage cultural evolution, instead of pretending to do so while actually serving themselves and their allies. I’m thinking that…