Comment on You can't argue with his logic

nightmare786@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That is hilarious. They gave Christianity the selfish-gene treatment. I’ll be embarrassed if this is a page from the book — I haven’t actually read it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene

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  • nightmare786@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s from The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore

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  • updn@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s exactly what I thought of when I read the post, but don’t recall this page being in The Selfish Gene. Worth a read, though! (Better than this trope)

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  • Gaja0@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bruh why do lemmy dudes drop philosophical nukes so casually. Incremental adjustments to the trajectory of the mind one article at a time

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• BitchPeas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Preach brother

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• hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This kind of implies that this is the social engineering equivalent of worm-like malware in Cybersecurity.

  That’s curious.

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  • stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    High replication and changeability to adapt to circumstances. From molecules to lifeforms to cultures. It’s all the same process.

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  • BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    or a virus

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• untorquer@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Should have kept it in Latin…

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, should have kept the original speeches or whatever in Aramaic and never written them down.

    Organized religion is a vestigial organ from more primitive eras that’s weighing humanity down.

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    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not only religion. Any institution or organization, no matter what reason it was created, will immediately put continued existence and growth as their first priority.

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      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        See: capitalism.

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• stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Indeed - as a writer I find holy texts fascinating for their endurance through viral properties. It seems important for them to speak at once with ultimate authority but also a lot of vagueness to keep the messages versatile for as many situations as possible and as unfalsifiable as possible.

  They are the equivalent of a radioactive meteor that lands on an unwitting planet and spreads a plague.

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• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So, religious texts are basically just some kind of “mind virus”? But just not the kind one should be “woke” about?

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  • nightmare786@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    no it’s a meme. check out memetics

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• voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s the name of that book?

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  • nightmare786@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s from The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore

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• cheat700000007@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Original chain email

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