RE: virus: Scientists and Philosophers

Bob Hartwig (hartwig@ais.net)
Tue, 09 Feb 1999 19:22:41 -0600

>
>Some friendly advice from someone who survived the Great Virus Faith Wars:
>when you see "faith", read "trust". It may not be a perfect translation,
>but it will almost certainly help communication (assuming that's the goal).
>

Not only is the translation imperfect, it's terrible! Why load the language like that? Is it because loading the language is a successful memetic device? It must be a very good device to earn a place among Lifton's 8 criteria for thought reform.