(September 29, 2021 at 11:59 am)Angrboda Wrote: He may be referring to a situation in which survival of the group is threatened, a crisis of some sort. It may be beneficial in such situations to adopt leadership models that one wouldn't ordinarily adopt.
I just listened to a lecture wherein the speaker said that shepherding cultures develop an "honor morality." They do this because such a moral system is useful to have when you live in remote areas and need to defend your livestock from theft yourself. (There is no help from "authorities" as in a city.) Of course, other cultures in analogous predicaments may do the same. The lecturer cites American inner cities.
The thing is, once an honor culture develops, it tends to remain for dozens of generations, even when the initial conditions that prompted the honor culture to emerge are gone. For instance, whites in the American South. White Southerners were chiefly Scotch-Irish shepherds who brought an honor culture overseas with them. It still persists to this day.
I think this is relevant when one considers the utility in adopting a certain leader or power system due to current circumstances. Such decisions may remain for generations, even after the need for such a leader/power system is long gone.
