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Insofar as the concept of adaptation connotes conformity, it is undistributed, that is, lacks scientific precision to the degree that the function of myth in ritual and religion is extrapolated as applying to mythopoesis. The "state of adaptedness" (Hartmann) holds primarily for those historic scenes where the ruling powers are in
a position to impose acquiescence to and identification with their special interests. This situation pertains to primitive societies, some Oriental kingdoms, and to subsequent varieties of totalitarian regimes.