Re: virus: change in the church

Eric Boyd (6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca)
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:01:11 -0400

Hi,

psypher <overload@fastmail.ca> writes:
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...if we can come to some consensus as to content and target audience I'll volunteer to write it. I have some experience with the composition of manifestoes. ...before we set a length we need to figure what components it should contain. My thoughts:

a- the virus of liberty 

      i. degrees of freedom
     ii. how our memetic viewpoint liberates the infected
 b- the field of competition
      i. memetics and the mind [whose thoughts are we having?]
     ii. memetics and consciousness [what's 'me' in this equation]
iii. memetics and culture [from whence come the memes?] c- you have already been infected

i. enacting the viral program [this of course requires that we develop a program]
>>

Cool. I think some of the most important parts of a manifesto should relate to the ethics page -- rationality is an obvious one, but I think that empathy plays a large role in both memetics and level 3. Linking dogmatism in consciousness/phaith/level 3 is easy.

Regarding 'a program' -- are you thinking like a 'twelve step' here's how to get infected kind of thing, or what?

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...just something off the top of my head. We're not looking for an academic tome [a la communist manifesto] but more a persuasive introduction to memetic concepts and a guide to further thinking - right? 2 to 3 thousand words should cover it.
>>

We're looking for an introduction to Virus, not just memetics -- a focus on the religiousness of reason, and on secular phaith and consciousness, on how freethinkers find meaning in life, and on why memetics itself provides an ideal approach from within science to touch on religion, etc. etc.

But I'm just spinning out ideas here... gotta spread my memes :-)

ERiC