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What if left and right politics is a precursor to human speciation?

What if people who understood competition as a social foundation were isolated from people who understood compliance as a social foundation for 2000 years and then met again?

What would be the result? What would you see come from both philosophies? Would there be population differences? Technological ones? Cultural?

Please be polite.
unitX · 36-40, M
Good question. They could go in many directions depending on cultural and societal factors, but generally I see the former as having the catalyst needed to achieve great technological potential out of the impulse of beating their other polarity. Each side catalyses the other to achieve over the other, but when out of hand this can lead to destruction which is also possible.

The latter again depends on culture and societal expectations but generally, the need for independence will be far less and the drive for the need of the whole will take precedence. This is more of an ideal "unified" society, though may not drive technological growth as the focus here is more towards understanding the needs of others. As a result, governance may suffer when those elements of human behavior (greed and so on) try to wiggle their way into such societies. This society's development highly depends upon their importance of inner growth as this will dictate how well off they really are. If this is ignored, it may be a living hell underneath the surface of "All is great". If embraced, then they truly are the more advanced, far more than the first who only care to outdo the other.
unitX · 36-40, M
@CoxswainOtter The culture in the main and whether inner development is seen as the primary foundation for an "advanced" society. Whether their actions are seen for what they are with full understanding by others or if they are seen by others as confusion for not knowing themselves. All this depends on who starts said society and how developed they are as that sets the pace. The method used depends on the starting level, so lower it would be more of a religious understanding to enforce servitude to a higher "good" which has a chance of corruption due to human nature. This can have brutal enforcement as a result. However, if the population already sees their mistakes as inner imperfections than the discipline needed would be far lessened as each would understand they all hold some level of responsibility. The spectrum of understanding for this is quite wide and infinitely varied and so this is just a generalization.

In short, the lower end requires an artificial measuring mechanism used for troublemakers due to the lack of understanding how to handle the situation themselves, and the higher end assumes more responsibility as others actions show one's inner development and this is understood by the society. They then can see how well the one in the wrong knows themselves and his/her reality before them and all work to coalesce to open doors that each is good at showing said individual.
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unitX · 36-40, M
@CoxswainOtter Only if such understandings was largely common amongst the population. At that point the understanding of unity would be commonplace such that all are but reflections of the self propelling one to remedy the situation, but that's much higher up.
The social types would revert to a primal lord of the flies type scenario.
The competitive types would spring forth a lush utopia..
Dood. Are you just being obtuse on purpose?
Should I just give the answers you want to hear from here out?
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Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
I honestly think they would both collapse
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