Re: MD !!!!MEMES!!!

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ROG TO DAVID ON BEHALF OF THE NUTTY DARWINIST RIFF RAFF DAVID: Why is eveyone so anxious to compare memes with patterns of value? ROG: I just took a break from counting dimpled chads, and needed to entertain myself. DAVID: � The nutty Darwinists and their ilk are reductive anti-quality rationalists of the highest order. ROG: Funny comment in a forum based on an evolutionary metaphysics. DAVID: Memes can go hang.� ROG: I see your point. DAVID: They are just a way of pretending that evolutionary theory has something useful to say about the history of ideas, like they pretend that it has something useful to say on every topic under the sun.� These days they pretend that evolution is the only subject there is: evolutionary psychology, evolutionary sociology, evolutionary theology, evolutionary cosmology: if it ain't evolutionary it ain't real. ROG: Yea, and evolutionary metaphysics!  The MOQ can go hang too!  (This is fun!!!) DAVID: Can't a man have a rest from this rubbish? ROG: [Insert favorite witty comeback here.] DAVID: Talk of 'memes' is just collaborating with no-brain monomainiacs who think that saying "beleifs that aren't beleived die out" is an interesting scientific observation with profound epistemological ramifications.� Get real.� And please find a less annoying word.� ROG: How about "monomaniacal ramifications"? DAVID: This making a religion out of evolution makes a lot less sense to me than a religion of motorcycles. ROG: Oh, so that's what the book was about!  They must have left that out of my Cliff Notes version. TTFN Rog