Pressure for faithful replication is what made early cultures anti-rational: Deutsch argues meme evolution always moved toward greater faithfulness, and so toward suppressing criticism, which is why rising creative capacity produced no stream of innovations for a very long time.

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  Meme evolution took place, and, like all evolution, this was always in the direction of greater faithfulness. This meant becoming ever more anti-rational.

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  Consequently, all those increases in creativity never produced streams of innovations.

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