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Memes replicate by design. Memes DO "have a rational motivation for
spreading", not "can have..."[disclaimer]. Even memes "wrapped up in a
blanket of emotion" spread...often the blanket of emotion is what helps them
to spread. But those who "co-exist peacefully with emotion" do not "grow by
deliberate means". Deliberateness grows through emotion, grows in spite of
emotion, consumes emotion to grow.
Growing by deliberate means is a misunderstanding. Memes power our growth,
they are the machinery which processes information toward a more successful
outcome. Intentional deliberateness, on the other hand, is emotionally
driven and destructive to one's own meme processes* To co-exist with
emotion and willfully choose one's own development is to divert resources
from our basic core functions (to >fight<, for example, is to divert our
resources from <specialization>, <self>, <safety>, <tribe>...).
*It may be that in threatening our own meme complex we give the impetus for
a meme to replicate...to form an emotional positive or negative charge and
attract a new host to balance this charge. In the case of >fighting< above,
this emotional--dissonent, ambivalent, context laden and content lax--action
would imbalance the <specialization> meme so that life is not it's primary
aim--toward negative energy or entropy...usurping order and demanding a new
host for the meme to stabalize.
Brett
Returning,
rBERTS%n
Rabble Sonnet Retort
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken