To expound on TheKak's post:
Memes.
Lets say you, Chuck, have a brilliant philosophy that doesn't encourage you to share it.
Meanwhile, Bob has a brilliant philosophy that encourages himself to share it.
All things being equal, Alice is more likely to get exposed to and start believing in Bob's philosophy than she is to start believing in Chuck's philosophy.
Ideas, or complexes of ideas, that, by their nature, encourage their own spread, will be more common than otherwise equivilent ideas or idea complexes that do not.
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