What do you mean by those terms?deronmoped wrote: It's the same thing with being liberal or conservative.
In the times of scarcity - say, between 400,000 and 4000BC everywhere on earth; up to 1900 AD in some parts of the world -
settled peoples tended to be more culturally enclosed than they are now, which means conservative in the sense of being slow to change,
but also far more egalitarian in the distribution of wealth and labour - which means, economically liberal.
At the same time, in communities of roughly equal size and prosperity, there was a vast variety of attitudes to family relations, sexual conduct, status, aggression, dress, speech, individual rights, education and the supernatural; a vast difference of tolerance for deviation from the norm and for self-expression.
How does opinion, and whether one may express it openly, affect abundance - or vice versa?People are allowed to be more liberal when there is excess (overabundance) in society.
What is the "wack" that a society can be or out of? Which particular wacks threaten its survival?Life or Mother Nature is the ultimate decider on how society functions. Get too far out of wack and society will not survive. Society will be driven to be more conservative in order to survive.