This post was written as part of the Lens x Kiwi Writing Contest. I’ve written about culture’s tendency to diverge and converge and eventually speciate into distinct cultures. So distinct do these cultures become, in fact, that you could place any real-world example of polar opposites and find a common ancestor for 99% of situations. Conservatism vs. Liberalism all stem from core beliefs around innovation. The human gene pool, milliard nation states, and even language itself are nothing but e...