Thinking of ideology as the heat source driving cultural entropy

Obviously, the second law of culturodynamics predicts this

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Note: the subheading above was kind of an irresistible joke. Entropy is what happens when things heat up and then come apart in a closed system, according to the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Get it?

Anyway, the thesis is this: ideologies are bad and give rise to clashes. These clas…