Re: virus: meme (WAS: re: virus: Spirituality)

Joe E. Dees (jdees0@students.uwf.edu)
Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:06:53 +0000


> Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 14:47:16 -0500
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> From: Bob Hartwig <hartwig@ais.net>
> Subject: Re: virus: meme (WAS: re: virus: Spirituality)
> Reply-to: virus@lucifer.com

> >Phenomenologically, It is from the natural perceptual foundation of
> >the concrete pariculars as apprehended in their relationships to
> >their circumscribing gestalts that we of necessity must begin (the
> >middle). From there, we may technologically transmute our perceptual
> >scale into both micros and cosmos. We must take care, however, that
> >each perceptual mediative link in our chain does indeed connect the
> >perceiver and the perceived in a direct and isomorphically
> >proportional manner, so that the degree of alteration of the read
> >symbol seamlessly relates to the amount of change in the referent
> >being investigated.
> >
>
> I've seen few more perfect examples of the <It's Cool To Use Big Words
> Where Small Ones Will Suffice> meme.
>
Concision and precision work at cross-purposes. When the situation
being described is one of some complexity, it is preferable to use
the multisyllabic terms that precisely fit rather than to run the
risk of over-simplistic errors in one's expression merely to dumb
down one's vocabulary. (Lotta big words there, Clem. Must be
nonsense, 'cause I don't have the sense to make sense of it).