Richard Stanley
Well-Known Member
The following is a 2 hour talk by Daniel Schmachtenberger about the dynamics of human social interactions, and how our growing use of memes, now amplified by technology, is impacting us. Basically, memes targeted towards 'Winning' are much more successful than memes targeted towards spreading 'Truth', the latter much more difficult to determine in a complex Reality. This where even 'experts' are forced to accept most of their 'truths' by various proxy agents, many or most of which have agendas.
The biggest source of 'Winning' memes (usually lies) are various markets, where the Sellers' interests are not as Win/Win oriented as they would like the Buyers to believe.
The very beginning is a little obtuse, covering basic material and such, but starts gathering steam after bit. At 51 minutes in it gets very interesting from a Postflavian perspective, talking about religion. For instance, how the core tenets of Christianity, of Peace and Foregiveness, get functionally inverted -- by the fractally competing meme factories.
At the end he discusses possible directions to steer past this.
The biggest source of 'Winning' memes (usually lies) are various markets, where the Sellers' interests are not as Win/Win oriented as they would like the Buyers to believe.
The very beginning is a little obtuse, covering basic material and such, but starts gathering steam after bit. At 51 minutes in it gets very interesting from a Postflavian perspective, talking about religion. For instance, how the core tenets of Christianity, of Peace and Foregiveness, get functionally inverted -- by the fractally competing meme factories.
At the end he discusses possible directions to steer past this.