Read an interesting book, The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel P Huntington. He makes a powerful case for a new world order based on culture and claims that the world looks much more like the worlds when I play Sid Meier's Civilizations than anything resembling the old cold war division. According to him it is most useful for policy purposes to see the world as composed of 5-7 civilizations that play their own game and shifting allegiances whenever suitable without a stable friends & foes division.
He mentions specifically that the most dangerous clashes will come from Western arrogance, Islamic intolerance and Sinic assertiveness. He is probably right about that. These three cultures have all long history and are all convinced of the "correct way of life" both on an individual and on an institutional level.
It seems that the strongest memes are cultures.
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