In the twilight of a state, individually selected ideology augments, both from evolutionary and social processes. This allows individually selected programs and peoples to increasingly exercise power by electing leaders and controlling resources. All this time, the decadent state is weakening vis-ȃ-vis rival states. The group selected become marginalized, both in terms of their proportions and projected power. At the same time, the fear of internal disorder and external conquest that the group selected are primed to perceive becomes increasingly activated by the real prospect of decline. And so, as a function of decline, the individually selected become more numerous and vocal, whereas the group selected become more fearful and desperate, all of which creates a climate of political polarization. This contrasts with the relative harmony of mature, but not yet decadent states, which retain a high proportion of group selected members that have carved out a stable and secure territory from the larger world, which buffers societal members from conquest. As discussed in this Chap. 19 , it is precisely this stability which increases the proportion of individually selected persons and allows them the latitude to voice dissenting opinions and redresses basic injustices. Thus it follows that group selected persons and values, so integral in state formation, give rise to a stable society wherein fairness and freedom can flourish as the power and proportions of individually selected societal members rise. Nevertheless, the process, coming full circle, ends in decline; not necessarily decline generally, but decline by the standards of power and influence against rival groups and nations, as when declining Greek societies fell under Roman rule.