From: rhiggins7 (rhiggins7@cox.net)
Date: Mon 26 May 2003 - 09:50:59 GMT
> Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 12:47:29 -0700
> From: "Dace" <edace@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: never wanting to grow up
>
> > From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade.t.smith@verizon.net>
> >
> >
> > This would seem to be a proposal that all memes are false.
>
> Not necessarily. A meme could be true by accident. What you
unconsciously
> wish to believe may turn out to be correct. Also, memes can include works
> of art which, even if they're fictional, may express a deeper truth.
Memes
> can exploit our need to gain a sense of wholeness and other positive
needs.
> The main thing is that memes pass from mind to mind under their own power,
> whereas ideas pass among us via our conscious power of reason.
>
Is this belief held by this memetic community at large? Ideas can't be
memes and visa versa? the disitinction here seems extremely arbitrary and
contrived to propogatte an "Us vs Them" belief structure within the
community. And why would the fact that a Meme is true or false have any
impact on how it is replicates? Only the "Belief" in the truethfullness of a
meme will impact its viralents. Many of our most deepest held beleifs about
science and reason are essencially subjective memes but we believe them to
be true. More disturbing in this post is the implied belief that somehow "it
is those awfull lying Memes that supress Our great Ideas from changing the
world".
I wonder if anyones got a good Idea on how to counter this Meme.
Ray Higgins
rhiggins7@cox.net
If "Believing is See" then could it be that
for each of us "Believing is being"
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