Also, could you define "Godelianly" for me? I honestly dont know what that means.
Sodom
Bill Roh
Joe E. Dees wrote:
> > Subject: virus: Bequest
> > Date: Thu, 21 May 98 18:11:35 -0400
> > From: "Wade T. Smith" <morbius@channel1.com>
> > To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> > Reply-to: virus@lucifer.com
>
> > >So the meme you are worried about is not anti-butchery, or
> > >anti-communist, it is the [we-are-the-chosen-people] meme - [insert
> > cult/country/religion]
> > >are right, all others are by default, wrong. Thats the best thing about being
> > an
> > >[insert cult/country/religion], you are always on the morally correct side -
> > YES!
> >
> > Yes?
> >
> > And, Bill, you _really_ should be living in Cambridge....
> >
> > ;-)
> > The nice thing about a "freedom meme" is its anti-dogmatic, almost
> scientfically non-judgmental, morally/ethically neutral character.
> It doesn't prescribe what you must do with your freedom or proscribe
> what you mustn't do with it (this is tautologically the nature of
> freedom, by definition), it merely states that each individual should
> have all freedoms that do not interfere with the same freedoms
> exercised by anyone else, and where the inevitable conflicts occur,
> they should be resolved by equal and proportional compromise. It
> wears no altruistic blinders, however; the reason it is embraced is
> the benefit it grants immediately to the individual, and only
> subsequently (and mediately) to the society. It is a formal meme,
> with negligible content, and is well suited to permeate the
> emergently self-conscious, recursive psyche, which is programmed to
> transcend its programming; in other words, programmed for freedom. I
> am not worried about the freedom meme - I LIKE it, and the
> evolutionarily creative diversity of thought and action it fosters.
> It tolerates everything - except intolerance, and makes everyone
> slaves - to their own free wills and choices (though it insists on
> personal responsibility for their consequences, which is fine with
> me). Like a free market and laissez-faire economics, it is a
> synthesis of existentialism and ethical egotism, and works best
> (though not perfectly, or even perfectibly - the nature of
> open-ended, recursive systems is to be Godelianly imperfect and
> incomplete) hand-in-glove with participatory democracy.
> >
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