From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Wed May 21 2003 - 16:37:25 MDT
I think the key here is that CoV SHOULD always be striving to consciously engineer a would-be designer religion. The day it stops is the day we have old, dead dogma as our core. We can learn a few truths along the way, even have a dynamic manifesto, but can we really have any sacred, canonized truths and meet our adaptivity goals.
jubungalord wrote:
> Credentials don't neccesarily mean they are computer literate or intelligent. The older scholars who have the most prestige probably don't use anything besides email. Also they don't understand the importance of a hang out. In most cases I think they believe that thier slightly increased intelligence is cause by some individually special attribute like a soul. I think this deters them from participating in things that will question thier precious status like group discussions. Especially group discussions where a nobody can dispute thier reasoning. CoV is important because Self and Group worship are not a problem. No individual gains unchallengeable status. It escapes the evolutionary psych trend of meme control by a social heiarchy. The only problem I have is Action. If action is not taken we can not claim to be more intelligent or less biased or anything. If the the CoV is not trying to make changes like every other group than it's meme-plex and everything it stands for wi!
> ll not be replicated enough times to impact anything. WE have seen the meme-tactics of the most basic and simplistic organization and yet I see intelligent people everywhere still refusing to play the game. Do you think you are better than that? I think many intelligent people fall into the same ego-chasm of self indulgent praise that those scholars and religious people do. Creating change should be a reaction to the acknowledgement of being more intelligent.
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