Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA16267 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:31:00 GMT Subject: RE: ....and the beat goes on and on and on... Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:27:50 -0500 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20010122142630.AAA21052@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 01/22/01 08:08, Joe E. Dees said this-
>I was
>correct when I branded you as an unthinking zombic memebot of
>the lowest order, in cognitive thrall to pernicious error.
Hell, nobody's perfect.
IMHO, Chris is an (archetypal) astrologer, and everything he says will
work in the proper context and setting, there being a very nice mix of
generality and specificity to all of it.
I'm willing to enjoy what I see probable about it all.
But, in the wider cases of Theories of Everything, how many wrongs do
make a right?
Does institutionalization (usually by applying faultlessness to a leader
or its doctrine) provide a set of wrongs with enough momentum to
circumvent any right that might make an effort to impede?
Why must dogmas fight facts by ignoring them and instilling bias?
And why is science, in its essence, so non-stubborn? Don't it want to
protect itself?
How many rights make a right...?
- Wade
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