Re: virus: barnowl@rain.org: Memetics debates

zaimoni@ksu.edu
Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:53:52 -0600 (CST)


On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, David Leeper wrote:

> barnowl@rain.org wrote:
>
> > Now to say we are not even masters of our own mind is yet
> > another such blow, and understandably engenders hostility.
>
> Wait a minute. I think this is backwards.
>
> In olden days everything was because God wanted it that way, or demons
> tricked us into swaying
> from Gods plan. We were just puppets.
>
> Even at the beginning of this century, psychology described people with
> terms like Oedipus
> Complex or Shadow Archtype, which are parts of the body of theory of
> psychology, not part of
> the body of the person being talked about.
>
> Today with genes and memes an individual has, for the first time in
> history, encapsulated
> within himself his own tools of reason and creation.

[CLIP]

Then again, one of the Luciferic PR items IS that we are masters of our
own mind. This is a phenomenal sell, and vastly outcompetes the lesser
religious resistances noted above.

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