I know how sensitive you all are (objectivists) at having it pointed out to you that your theories about reality are only one among many and come from a person.
Iâm sorry but even in the meta-theater we need a context. Dawkins may be in the production but no one can point to him as the director or the actor or the playwright. Let alone as embodying them objectively.
Selfish genes and socialist memes as it were. And I was the âstarâ.
Unfortunately I just found out that yahoo groups will soon be defunct. You used to be able to click on them and at the bottom of the page was a year to year collection of every single post!
I was going to go back to around 2004 - 2006 and show you an example of how it worked.
No, thatâs your context. All Iâm trying to do here is what Julian and Becky and I tried to do in our âproductionsâ: to encompass individual reactions to particular contexts as the subjective, existential embodiment of dasein. Both genes and memes are intertwined in that. Instead, it comes down to emphasis. Folks like Satyr are really, really big on genes. Others, like the âblank slateâ crowd, are really, really big on memes.
âThemâ in what context? What can be differentiated in that context as the objective truth from a subjective opinion?
What particular Nazis in what particular context? How might Dawkins take on genes and memes be examined there? In regard to, say, the Final Solution. The extent to which Nazis can ground it in the objective truth rather than the ideological bent of Hitler. And, then: how were Hitlerâs views of the Jews rooted subjectively in dasein, given the existential trajectory of his own life experiences?
Truth be told, I donât remember the exact moment when it first came to my attention. But thatâs true for all of us. We pick up on things over the course of years over the course of countless experiences. We think things today that we have only the vaguest understanding of how we first came to think it.
[b]Now, once again, in this routine, youâre up.
And what you will no doubt do is ignore 90% of the points I raised here. Instead, you will focus in on one thing and ask another âgeneral questionâ.
Either that or something along the lines of âYou dirty Commie Nazi asshole!â
Or, most excruciating of all, you will shoot for âcleverâ.[/b]
Or, sure, letâs just end the âroutineâ here and now.
If for no other reason this is the âpost a picture of yourselfâ thread. And, truth be told, I donât even know how to do that.
Lots of people talk shit about me; lots of people hate me, but, theyâve never sat down with me and had a drink with me. Iâm a really nice person.
When you see my photos, it gives you a slightly clearer vision, but not complete.
Those are the eyes of someone who has been sent to hell by everyone for no reason at all, and slowly crawled my way back one person at a time, and holds no grudge.