Operator Speaking by Zachary Constantine
 

God Wants You Dead: Weaponized Memes

2010-02-09 08:45:23 // The Operator
 

It is important to these idea-organisms to maintain the status quo where the powers of individual humans are concerned. The environment in which they evolved included many human limitations. And it is not clear that they can continue to survive in a world in which individual human beings gain more power – a world in which certain human limitations are overcome.

- 0.2.2 Living Ideas: God Wants You Dead
by Sean Hastings and Paul Rosenberg

The vicious-but-virtuous circles and the tired semantic loops are defenses – religion resists rational analysis and defies polite conversation because it is weak and aware of its Achilles’ heel: reason.

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