Greetings Economists, On Mar 9, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
to become a kind of evangelical atheist like Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I'd rather see more leftists follow the path of the late Stephen Jay Gould, who wore his secular worldview with a sense of humor, rather than that of evangelical atheists on a jihad for secularism.
Doyle; Ha ha, there is nothing to evangelize about atheism. It's not a unified position. There are projects in Artificial Intelligence that remove the 'soul' from brains, but no one cares if the point gets transmitted to everyone. Unifying people tolalizes community structure which is a Marxist project. In that sense the soullessness of materialism has a sense of evangelism. The happy thought of being one with all. The every day sense of wonder, and energy in mind. But those are so different from any work process any person can do to evangelize the totality as to make unhappy the person who aspires to the same. Doyle
