>>Can we find good examples of competition that was artificially but successfully introduced by governments, schools, media or suchlike?
Hm...Eurovision song contest? How about school as such? Isn't that a highly artificial, government-introduced competition?
Thinking about it, it should be much easier to intruduce a competition in having children compared to a competition in sitting on a chair taking in rather arbitrary information. All over the world, people are happy over and proud of their well-fed, healthy and happy children. It takes quite a bit of cultural evolution to make people anxious and ashamed instead. It is probably enough just to ease some of that cultural pressure against pride over children, and the kind of fertility competition that was so ubiquitous just a few generations ago will resume.
>>Can we find good examples of competition that was artificially but successfully introduced by governments, schools, media or suchlike?
Hm...Eurovision song contest? How about school as such? Isn't that a highly artificial, government-introduced competition?
Thinking about it, it should be much easier to intruduce a competition in having children compared to a competition in sitting on a chair taking in rather arbitrary information. All over the world, people are happy over and proud of their well-fed, healthy and happy children. It takes quite a bit of cultural evolution to make people anxious and ashamed instead. It is probably enough just to ease some of that cultural pressure against pride over children, and the kind of fertility competition that was so ubiquitous just a few generations ago will resume.