>>4323011the more i explore this field of thought, the more it makes sense to me.
I even see now, that genes themselves did not create memes by forging humans, but rather, the magic/information that memes represent are just being expressed through the slightly different language of DNA molecular chains.
The symbol in my pic had troubled me for some time, i found it strangely beautiful and compelling to look at, and now i think i see - it is the soul of DNA, the reality behind the physical structure.
Memes and Genes are the same thing, exactly the same. 100%.
As RNA and DNA can make organisms, memes can make cultures, as RNA and DNA can make cells, memes can make single ideas, as RNA and DNA can make bacteria and viruses, memes can become subversive, destructive ideologies that infect a civilisation and kill it.
I feel the ancients felt this, but didn't know it - they lacked the capacity to properly articulate it and so, being the wise and considerate men they were, contained the seeds of this truth in the poetry of older religions, a time-capsule of godlike power to be wielded by whom or whatever generations in the future could unlock it.
If move forward in life and society now, cutting down filth like political correctness, with these divine forces in mind - there is literally nothing on earth or in the stars that could conceivably stop us.
Consciousness was our eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil - this, this is the fruit of the tree of life.
We just have to bite, and chew.