[MD] Social Imposition ?

[Case]

[Platt]
Evolutionary movement is NOT made possible solely by collectivization 
and increasing complexity as you keep asserting. That's the scientific 
explanation, not the MOQ's. Pirsig clearly describes the MOQ's 
evolutionary principle in Lila, Chap. 24:

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In short, evolution occurs through a process of "Dynamic invention," 
not some magical "emergence" from increasing collectivization.

[Case]
As long people were confined to talking amongst themselves and repeating
tales around the campfire culture remained in a relatively primitive state.
Culture really only became a significant force with the advent of writing.
Writing and the exchange of information across time and distance allows the
collective sharing of culture. Before that time the influence of the most
brilliant and rugged individuals was confined to fairly short time spans. 

But more to the point "Dynamic invention"; "magical emergence"? You say
potato I say potatoe. Evolution is about how systems maintain equilibrium in
the face of change. The extension of individual human memory in the form of
written language is a change that originated not in the environment but in
within the species. It is an example of an intellectual pattern causing
disequilibrium at the social level. As Prigione indicates when a system is
pushed into a far from equilibrium state in can either reorganize into a
higher state of energy or a lower one. In this instance it was a higher one
and the results are... well History.