As technological conditions develop, the sophistication of a society’s culture increases in tandem. Just as stone-age values are more compatible for people working within the systems and social arrangements inherent to stone-age civilization, space-age values are more compatible for people working within the systems and social arrangements inherent to space-age civilizations. On the surface, this doesn’t seem to be a problematic statement to make at all but when we look at how we can apply that logic to human civilization, things get trickier. Across the world, different civilizations evolved at different rates and the technological disparities between these civilizations usually determined who conquered who. While we have this notion that different values and beliefs work better than others, the prevailing beliefs and values today truly only became mono-dominant due to the success of the civilizations that espoused them. Different material conditions across the globe created different social conditions across the globe, which gave rise to different flavors of values and beliefs that gradually cohered into borders and nation states. While the Christian nations undoubtedly had a better approach to observing the calendar than the Aztecs did, this didn’t matter in the same ways that the Spanish conquistadors’ armor nullified any blows that the Aztecs could manage to land on the invaders. In this “Chicken or the Egg” scenario, differing technological conditions gave rise to differing cultural conditions, and more advanced cultures won out typically by virtue of being more technologically advanced to begin with.