> And they no longer are coerced into going along with another belief system (compromise) due to economic need from the majority. At that point the civilization unravels due to lack of coherent direction.
I'm not idealizing. I'm saying its a cycle so powerful and embedded in our nature that people wrote parables about it that have persisted for thousands of years yet we keep doing it and not learning our collective lesson.
I mean... you think this is _new_? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wars_of_religion
Civilisation, you will not, survived a few hundred years of _that_.
I'm not sure that the sort of ultra-conformist society that you seem to be thinking of ever really existed.