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I know the dogma for some people here is "politics always flows downstream to culture" but I personally know people that played enough Civ games where they really do seem to believe that the way to get their Martian colonial "win state" in real life is to give :my-hero: as much money as possible, as if that was science beakers allocated toward the universal progress bar. They even called it a "science victory" directly referring to Civ games.
I think that's one thing that a lot of people really take too far, in the same way a disdain for "Great Man Thinking" can get taken too far to the point where people genuinely think that no individual leader can be important or have an outsized influence. Culture is shaped by politics and the ideological environment it's created in, but it also serves the same by spreading the ideas that made it. Like South Park didn't create edgy "the status quo is normal and good and completely apolitical and everything that seeks to change it is cringe politics and bad" chud thinking, but it certainly helped to teach that pre-existing ideological stance to a generation. Similarly, Civ didn't create its terminal lib-brain thinking, but it helped propagate it and teach it to a new generation of nerds.
I actually believe "politics is (usually) downstream from culture" is a useful and often correct guideline, but the dogma of it is thought-terminating and often used to selfish ends, usually some form of "stop criticizing the ideology in my treats."