FWIW, evolution is compatible with a central authority, IMO. The essential elements of evolution are copying, variation and differential survival—following Lewontin, 1970: “THE UNITS OF SELECTION”. There’s no mention of the presence—or absence—of a central authority. It’s the same with textbooks on the subject of evolution. If there was a central authority dictating the contents of the ideosphere, memetics would still have something to say about how those ideas evolved.
FWIW, evolution is compatible with a central authority, IMO. The essential elements of evolution are copying, variation and differential survival—following Lewontin, 1970: “THE UNITS OF SELECTION”. There’s no mention of the presence—or absence—of a central authority. It’s the same with textbooks on the subject of evolution. If there was a central authority dictating the contents of the ideosphere, memetics would still have something to say about how those ideas evolved.