How the expression of human conscience creates culturally relevant norms which drive societal evolutuion, and the origin of religious faith

To a Quora answerer:  Thanks.  have to share, you can delete, regards: Why do humans have a conscience? Is there any evidence to support the idea that other animals also possess a conscience?

Read your answer and need to internalize it, but, The anger/guilt dichotomy is all about social hierarchy, as you said.  here's a couple paragraphs of some implications...things I've been refining...ba anthro 1976 lol.

NORMS, the way people in a culture act, are what drive societal evolution.  Your discussion of our thinking process shows how our individual motivations to act one way or another, lead to and stem from cultural norms.

Jews are not allowed pork, yet Oceanians love it, (norms are cultural) but, if Swine Flu were to jump the porcine=human divide, the Polynesians would be wiped out...that's an example of a societal norm (eating and reveling in pork) causing great societal disruption, depending on environmental factors...like disease. 

NORMS (how we act, the connection to morality) are therefore the Genes of Societal Evolution.  

If those "genes" are expressed in an environment that isn't conducive, the degradation or extinction of society follows!

There is a further implication, relating to "leaders and followers".

Our DNA contains the golden rule, otherwise we couldn't/wouldn't form groups in the first place.  A group implies leaders and followers, by definition, more followers than leaders.

If the leader provides good advice, and the NORMS practiced by that culture are successful, the leader and that 'platform' are used to produce the next generation of this society.

If the leader is unsuccessful (in ending the drought, for example), they are either replaced, new norms are practiced, or, the norms taught by that leader lead to disintegration of the society!

Discussion of why faith happens follows.  Thanks, you really helped!