[DylanDmitri]

Key element is probably less technology, and more social/political/religious unity. You need a stable and egalitarian social fabric to make consistent progress.

Core beliefs: rebooting civilization is hard but will make everything better (promised land), here's the scientific method and why it works, here's how to setup and maintain a democratic nation state, here's how to incentivize and reward inventors. Here's fascism and why it's bad. Here's the Prisoner's Dilemma -- everyone must cooperate with each other and identify and punish defectors. Here's songs and rituals and art you can participate in together to reinforce all of this.

[all2]

Why is this getting downvoted? A stable society is an absolute must, and that means a group of people who have a common moral foundation. Else, how do we work together?

[barry-cotter]

There’s a mixture of universal features of how societies work well and political fashion. The parochialism is annoying.