BoI 15:
For a society to be static, something else must be happening as well. One thing my story did not take into account is that static societies have customs and laws – taboos – that prevent their memes from changing. They enforce the enactment of the existing memes, forbid the enactment of variants, and suppress criticism of the status quo.
Deutsch says all static societies enforce taboos, customs and laws, make members enact memes without variation, and suppress criticism of the status quo.
I agree Deutsch says that.
And Deutsch claims there are only two possible types of society, with static societies being the much more common type in human history, so he’s making claims here about most human societies that have ever existed. This is talking about laws of history that most societies have to follow. It’s historicism.
Here I think I’m missing something. The claim that there are only two possible types of society isn’t a claim about laws of history, is it? Couldn’t there be non-historical reasons for why there are e.g only two possible types of society?