Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA16902 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:18:35 GMT From: <joedees@bellsouth.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:22:04 -0600 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution Message-ID: <3A7FDE5C.13529.31E2DC0@localhost> In-reply-to: <20010206160251.C984@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20010206141025.AAA29003@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]>; from wade_smith@harvard.edu on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:11:30AM -0500 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 6 Feb 2001, at 16:02, Robin Faichney wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:11:30AM -0500, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> > On 02/06/01 08:57, joedees@bellsouth.net said this-
> >
> > >It shows that if one perseveres, one can change one's own mind in
> > >desired directions not just in the short term, but also in the long
> > > term, or what's a college education for?
> >
> > And this, indeed, is freedom.
> >
> > (I think someone was talking about freedom....)
> >
> > But, look at the social substrate required for this freedom.
> >
> > How rare it is, and has ever been.
>
> Are you saying only college graduates are free???
>
Are you saying that not only they, but also kings and dot-com
zillionaires, possess no (real rather than illusory) freedom at all?
There's that maya thing again...Plato's cave in another guise.
> --
> Robin Faichney
> robin@reborntechnology.co.uk
>
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