[FoRK] More faith-driven insanity: kill the teacher!

Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> on Fri Nov 30 15:05:11 PST 2007

On Nov 30, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Luis Villa wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2007 3:56 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>>> Religion is just the tool used to fulfill the much more primal need.
>>
>> I don't see it that way;  it's a nasty memetic monkey on humanity's
>> back.
>>
>> This really devolves, I suppose, to a question of whether one
>> believes in the literal existence of memes.
>>
>> I do.
>
> You're blaming the problem on the meme; I'm blaming the problem on the
> addiction which requires the creation of the meme,

Ah, but see, that's just the point;  you think the meme is a thing  
created.  I don't;  I say the meme creates *us.*

jb


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