Re: virus: Re: sociological change

Alex Williams (thantos@decatl.alf.dec.com)
Tue, 31 Dec 1996 09:51:42 -0500 (EST)

> Of course. Many cultural theorists have recently come about to saying
> that we are endless folds of surface upon which are written the
> discourses.
>
> No "self" as the moderns and romantics had invented it.

I've been saying, memetically, there is no `self' for a while on the
ML. I think its something we tacitly take on when discussing
memetics. Memetics, in a very stark light, is very good at
depersonifying people. You look and are confronted with nothing but
complexly associating cellular automata which function together to
present a (mostly) coherent face to the world.