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+Here is a book to add to your list -- Bloom, H., The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History, The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1995.
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+Bloom illustrates here a kind of "life eats life" scenario, incorporating
+the far-reaching concepts of memes, the social "superorganism,"
+self-organizing systems (autopoeisis, as applied to the social forces that
+guide history), and the pecking order to put together "the big picture" of
+how biology and sociology interact.
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+"Lucifer is the dark side of cosmic fecundity, the cutting blade of the
+sculptor's knife. Nature does not abhor evil; she embraces it... One
+result: from our best qualities come our worst." Very good stuff here --
+Genocide and murder are merely tools for creation, bloody creation. You may
+have already run into this peice of work, but if not, i think it'd be worth
+your time to consume it.
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Ant Allan recommends...
So let me recommend a book which is perhaps a little leftfield, but
will I think be of much interest to many Virions, not least because it
