Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA19953 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:14:05 GMT Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:08:10 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Toggling nature's auto-erase Message-ID: <20010315160810.C632@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20010315125858.AAA423@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.34]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <20010315125858.AAA423@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.34]>; from wade_smith@harvard.edu on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:58:59AM -0500 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:58:59AM -0500, Wade T.Smith wrote:
>
> I would argue that Breton says something real here- "(Surrealism)
> declares that it is able, by its own means, to uproot thought from an
> increasingly cruel state of thralldom, to steer it back onto the path of
> total comprehension, return it to its original purity."
>
> It is this purity of interaction with nature that I seek.
Very buddhist! :-) (Choice of lower case there deliberate.)
> But meme reduction, while seemingly a good thing- how is it possible?
Meditation.
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