Genesis Is Just an Example

Sequence may be overrated
In a species that needs syntax
And order of operations
To survive. Sequence fixation

May have enhanced storytelling
And storytelling causation.
Sequences have to be rigid
Enough and modular enough

And be taken seriously
Enough by those entrained by them,
Not too stereotypical,
Not immune to substitutions,

Leaving room for evolution
But holding the ratchet in place.
A conviction in causation,
Origins, goals for sequences,

And an obsessive interest
In learning them, practicing them,
Improvising variations
Have combined to build that ratchet

Of cultural evolution.
But sequence isn’t everything.
Some randomness always slips in.
Origin’s never origin.