WHY DO WE ERECT STATUES TO FALLEN ENEMIES? Why do we erect statues to fallen ene

WHY DO WE ERECT STATUES TO FALLEN ENEMIES?

Why do we erect statues to fallen enemies? To demonstrate loyalty. Loyalty is the only means of overcoming differences in frame: religious(emotional), rational(practical), or political (necessary). So despite our trifunctionalism, Europeans maintained loyalty to one another.

Our civilization depends on loyalty to the commons that other civilizations do not practice (and cannot). So we honor the enemy if they demonstrated loyalty. And we dishonor the enemy if they don’t.

Why? Because any group that demonstrates loyalty can be integrated into our civilization. And any group that does not demonstrate loyalty cannot be integrated into our civilization. This is why jews and Muslims and many others cannot integrate. They practice kin or cult loyalty, not POLITICAL LOYALTY.

Loyalty eliminates the need for cognitive monopoly of frames. This is a core reason for the success of western civilization: by maintaining trifuctionalism we maintain competition between cognitive frames, increasing innovation, adaptation, evolution, … using loyalty.

This loyalty is possible largely because we were unable to concentrate production like the river civilizations, but able to organize states, unlike the steppe civilizations. So we evolved in a Goldilocks zone, that made continuous recursive innovation adaptation and evolution.