RE: virus: Faith, Logic and Purpose
Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:57:59 -0000
> From: Wade T. Smith[SMTP:wade_smith@harvard.edu]
>
> >Wade, what do you vision a life without memes to be like? (Not just
> for
> >you but for society as a whole.
> >
> >Marie
>
> Well, that's a good question.
>
> Do I actually have an answer?
>
> No, not really.
>
> And anyway, you're really _not_ going to like it....
>
> A live without memes would be a consciousness wherein intent equaled
> behavior, and form equaled function.
>
> I suppose it would be that ideal sci-fi state of pure energy
> consciousness,
> like on so many Star Treks and in so many pulp fictions, but I don't
> know.
>
Hey, Wade, now I know why you like it here --
just like the rest of us, you're a waffler!
> So what is it? Don't know. But like other phrases I seem to like, such
> as
> 'E=MC^2', and 'Theism is mental inbreeding', and 'Art is never power'-
> they
> are constructs of creative bon-motism....
>
How about: "debunking isn't bonking" or "exercising power is an art"
or "exorcising power is the ultimate art" or "materialism is
self-denial"?
Any more?
Robin