"Civilizational darwinism…" Rui murmured. "The survival of the fittest."
She nodded. "However, the fittest here aren't simply those who are the strongest; it refers literally to those most fit for the circumstances."
"…How do I create a nation that will always change to be most fit for its environment?"
"There is no fundamental condition for that, I'm afraid, at least none that I have identified in my studies of the life and death of civilizations." She shook her head. "However, what you can do is try to remove the most common reasons that civilizations are unable to change. And one of the most common reasons of them all is…"
Her tone grew more serious. "Sociocultural. In many ways, it is the toughest to resolve. If the culture and society of a nation are unable to change due to rigid sociocultural norms, then eventually, it will suffer. And in the worst cases, it will die out in one form or another. Let me take some modern examples that you are most familiar with, such as…"
