Re: virus: What makes memes compete?

Tony Hindle (t.hindle@joney.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:03:57 +0100


In message <Pine.SUN.3.93.970415104623.26268A-100000@eve.speakeasy.org>,
Tim Rhodes <proftim@speakeasy.org> writes
>> I reckon that in order to not have cognitive dissonance one
>> would need to create a new meme which "explains to oneself" why it was
>> ok to hold two contradictory beliefs (e.g, "anything for a quiet life").
>> This new meme would mean that one wasnt really holding two contradictory
>> beliefs anymore.
>
>Would this meme be analogous to the religious/spiritual concept of "seeing
>past the duality" then?
I dont know, what is this concept of seeing past the duality?
Tony Hindle.