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Posts Tagged ‘memetics’

God Wants You Dead: Ideological Morality

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Rarely do people hold feelings of neutrality about any ideology. Few people manage to ignore the higher level structure and consider the component ideas. This means that you can usually consider someone who despises a philosophy as a whole to be just as brainwashed as someone who embraces it completely. A person may know all [...]

God Wants You Dead: Memetic Parasitosis

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Parasitic ideas need to be helpful, or at least not too harmful, to the idea-organism in which they reside, but they can be very harmful to individual human beings. So long as they help (or do not badly harm) the idea-organism’s chances for survival and reproduction, they can cause all sorts of pain and death [...]

God Wants You Dead: Logic vs. Anger

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

People rarely get angry when someone disagrees with a simple symbiotic idea. There is usually no emotional reaction, simply logical discourse. A person might be puzzled that another is resisting a logically beneficial idea, but will not get angry about it. If there is emotional reaction, this indicates that the idea has probably become bundled [...]

God Wants You Dead: Holy War

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Collective idea-organisms turn men into tools to be used for the survival and growth of the Collective. This explains why people, who would not normally hurt a fly in their own homes, can be made to travel half way around the world, to risk death, and to kill people they have never met, in defense [...]

God Wants You Dead: Weaponized Memes

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

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 [...]

Operator’s Manual: Sterile Insect Technique

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Sterile insect technique is a method of biological control, whereby millions of sterile insects are released. The released insects are normally male as it is the female that causes the damage, usually by laying eggs in the crop, or, in the case of mosquitoes, taking a bloodmeal from humans. The sterile males compete with the [...]

Parasitism and its Parallels

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

After entirely too much time spent reading and worrying about the likes of phylum platyhelminthes and phylum nematoda, and phylum apicomplexa, I have begun making comparisons between the natural world (in which parasites often thrive) and the abstract man-made realms which have yet to enumerate or adequately model evolved organisms (which is not to say [...]