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Fri May 12 2000 at 20:32:53
A work in progress...
There is a tendency in
modern
thought
to
divide
the
forces
of the
universe
into
order
and
chaos
,
black
and
white
,
good
and
evil
. And while many
espouse
upon the
idea
of
order
existing
within
chaos
and the nature of such pattern less
patterns
I find that very few people allow themselves to truly
think
differently.
Perhaps it has something to do with our
gregarious
and
herd-like
nature. The
need
of many (most)
humans
to
socialize
and otherwise
interact
with members of their own
species
causes a
smoothing
of
ideas
and
thoughts
into a more
unified
group
behaviour
.
Dissidents
and
individual thinkers
cause
violent
disruptions
in the
collective
beliefs
of such
groups
. These
disruptions
can cause the
social
group mind
to
splinter
and
fragment
into multiple
near-fractal
social
groups
. I say
near-fractal
because these
shards
of the original
social
group
remain
virtually
the same with perhaps only one
meme
dissimilar to the original
group mind
.
In a small
social
group
such
aberant
behaviour is quickly
removed
; either by
physically excising
the
body
that houses the
meme
or by
reinforcing
the original
memes
until the new
meme
is
destroyed
. Thus new
memes
have difficulty impressing themselves upon other
minds
. When a
human
group
attains a large enough size, however, more
unique
memes
can sustain themselves in the larger
social
collective
. They must maintain just the right sized
population
to ensure survival. If a new
meme
is too large or attempts to
imprint
itself on too many older
members
of the
collective
group
then the
collective
will notice the new
meme
and attempt to
remove
it for
fear
of losing its own
cohesion
and
splintering
into smaller and less
successful
groups
. By some strange
fate
this act of noticing the new
meme
is frequently the cause of the very
fracturing
of the
group
mind
that it
dreads
.
Some
memes
manage to never raise the
attention
of the
collective
and actually become
merged
with the
collective
altering
its
perceptions
without allowing it to realize that its
outlook
has been
influenced
by an
aberant
meme
.
The problem with
collective
minds and the
human
trait
of
social
darwinism
is that the
human
social
group
has the
unique
ability to
destroy
itself both through
willful
stagnation
and in
reflex
panic
.
Unfortunately the average
individual
human
mind
seems unable to internally
think
in a
fractal
manner that would more
comfortably
allow for the introduction of new
memes
. What is needed is for a
meme
to be
introduced
that stimulates
abstract
and
branching
thinking
that will more readily accept a new
idea
and
merge
its structure into the
collective
consciousness
, allowing such
memes
to
propegate
through out the
collective
structure
.
It is this regard that I think
Everything 2
may eventually play a part. That is, creating the
perception
of
cohesion
in
chaos
.
More to come...
The Dark Crystal
Meme
LieQuest 2024: A Lie Quest of Mythologically Discordian Proportions
E2 Annex
Flatterland
Everything Quest
Gregarious
Espouse
Don't panic
Consciousness
Chaos
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