Enough talking... just nominate me for the Nobel Peace Prize.
>>Although with some of the book's statements it is not easy to agree, all
>of them >encourage thinking. The authour writes about three levels that
>people live their
>>lives at. The highest one is available only to few. How can one reach
>it? Does it
>>exist at all, or is it just propaganda?...<
>Did Brodie actually contend that the highest levels of creative thought
>are only AVAILABLE to a few? Damn it, Tad, you've almost convinced me to
>buy it!
You mean you haven't read the VotM yet?!
> >A notion that you know how to live because you know how to program
>peoples' >minds seems to be highly immoral to me.<
>I missed something somewhere. Who claimed this?
No one in particular, it was just in case, as I just answered this question
to Tony.
>Not only useless ideas, but those hostile to the continued existence and
>growth of a different population can be "defended" or spread; this may
>explain some of Richard's reluctance to discuss the 4 P's. Since the
>Internet is global, is it possible that some future nightmare may be
>prevented thereby?
The BIG question is still open. It was raised by David McF in response to
Richard's "people who know the first thing about memetics".
(R) The first thing to know about memetics is to hide harmful memes.
(D) The second thing to know about memetics is that hiding harmful memes is
not a solution.
(T) The third thing to know about memetics is that hiding harmful memes, you
secretly use, appears useful.
Regards, Tadeusz (Tad) Niwinski from planet TeTa
tad@teta.ai http://www.teta.ai (604) 985-4159