> Hence, my friends, it seems only reasonable that the course of action
> called for is the creation of two sects with CoV:
>
> The priest class, or the venerable Ordained Vectors,
> and the layman-evangelist class, those members of the Memetic Jihad.
>
> (And we may have stumbled upon a memetic explanation for the internal
> structure of virtually every religion, from catholic bishops to that
> of the
> Inunnit Eskimo's shaman at the same time as well.)
>
Something very similar, but not quite identical, occurred
to me. It looks, at first glance at least, like fundamentalist
religious memes use r-type strategies, and liberal ones,
K-type strategies. On the other hand, the priest-layperson
dimension and the liberal-fundamentalist one are probably
not orthogonal. The "insiders" are privy to the "esoteric"
meaning, which is the symbolic one, while only outsiders
are satisfied with literalism.
Robin