virus: Review
Reed Konsler (konsler@ascat.harvard.edu)
Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:45:37 -0400 (EDT)
>Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 18:02:50 -0500
>From: Eric Boyd <6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca>
>
>Found this on a web page:
>
>Chuch of Virus
>
>An offshoot of the Extropians. It's actually not so much a religion ---
>even a ``a memetically engineered atheistic religion'' --- as
>a bunch of militant rationalists who've O.D.'d on Richard Dawkins and
>general systems theory (the latter a boondoggle if there
>ever was one). ``The name [Virus] was chosen to be deliberately
>antagonistic, to put people on their guard and let them know
>this idea was designed to infect them. Call it truth in advertising.''
>[CRS, himself a militant rationalist fond of Dawkins]
>
>http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~shalizi/hyper-weird/kooks.html
>
>What a great review, eh?
Militant Rationalists...
I like it.
Reed
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