From: Richard Brodie <RBrodie@brodietech.com>
To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: What does the replicating?
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 16:28:03 -0700
Tim Perper wrote:
>How does memetics explain the origin and spread of
>evil without postulating yet *another* ghost in the machine, this time
>in
>the form of a dualist set of Evil Memes, kin, we presume, to the forces
>of
>darkness variously known as Ahriman, Set, or Mephistopheles?
Do you mean the spread of evil acts by humans, or the spread of the
distinction-meme "evil" to refer to natural animal behaviors considered
antisocial? If the former, I assert that it's always been around. If the
latter, the notion of evil has been spread in the west by mind viruses
such as Christianity.
Richard Brodie RBrodie@brodietech.com +1.425.688.8600
CEO, Brodie Technology Group, Inc., Bellevue, WA, USA
Author, VIRUS OF THE MIND: The New Science of the Meme
Visit Meme Central: http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
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