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So is democracy in China an Anti-human meme?
Dave:
I agree about all (culturally transmitted) ideas being viral... I
thought
there was this tendency to say "adverts are like viruses, learning to
want
to kill people are like viruses and these viruses are eating away at our
brains," while playing down the idea that Scientific Method and the idea
"be
beautiful to each other" spread just as virally.
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Maybe there has-- I have been ignoring the reading of this list for a
little while-- but I don't think that is the intention.
Dave:
What stops us is not that we don't
have these aggressive memes, but that memes like "I don't want to be
killed
in reprisal" and "I don't want to go to prison" outcompete them. Also,
that
our histories of being punished for antisocial behaviours provoke an
unpleasant limbic rush when we think very antisocial things...
depressing
the memes active at the time. Maybe? Any Thoughts?
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I would hope that you would harbour some kind of meme that recognizes
the social resources of the group of people that you would otherwise gun
down-- Future friends, or loved ones, allies, enemies that are better to
you alive than dead. dot dot dot.
Also-- there's the unpleasant rush of realizing that you become
gun-downable (not necessarily in retribution) once you participate in
the spread of the meme.
-- Regards +--------------------------------------------------------+ Ken Pantheists http://www.lucifer.com/~kenpan +--------------------------------------------------------+