State without foundational goals and a natural process of reduction of blind spots will accumulate deadweight, transforming into a rent paying cow for local elites. A country always besieged by darwinian forces will be fit. Conflicts need not to be internal but rather external, cause normally internal conflict is a given as method of elite selection while external select for fit instutitions.
Well said! Ditto for scientific innovation.
Are you saying that a lack of internal conflict causes certain states to stagnate? For instance Malawi, which is in the Rift Valley Region
State without foundational goals and a natural process of reduction of blind spots will accumulate deadweight, transforming into a rent paying cow for local elites. A country always besieged by darwinian forces will be fit. Conflicts need not to be internal but rather external, cause normally internal conflict is a given as method of elite selection while external select for fit instutitions.