At Sun, 7 Feb 1999 18:45:22 -0800, you wrote:
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>No, David, there are times for a What-The-Heck attitude and there are times
>to insist that things matter. I do my best to point my finger in a forward
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A finger points to the moon. Ooooooh! Shades of R. D. Laing's "Knots." Remember the movie S.F.W.? The first memetic gospel (prompted by a hostage's reaction to a media terrorist group) was "So Fucking What?"; the second, shouted by a lone gunwoman, was "Everything Matters!" Both were wildly popular with the hoi polloi multitudes (no, not the scarfers of hawaiian poi pudding;~). Even though the proponent of the second tried to assassinate the proponent of the first, they both came to the understanding that they were, underneath the correlative oppositions of their assertions, identical to each other, and so were their slogans (on the metalevel of their absolute and gospel/dogma form).
>Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
>Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
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>Sent: Sunday, February 7, 1999 6:33 PM
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Brodie <richard@brodietech.com>
>To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
>Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 6:08 PM
>Subject: RE: virus: from the Skeptic's newsletter..
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>>No thanks. I'm here to aid people's growth, not deter it.
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>Psst, Richard. Your dogma is showing.
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Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher