X-Message-Number: 19631 From: Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 11:41:21 EDT Subject: Meme War strategy -- Ettinger is right --part1_9.2b99bf78.2a756aa1_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >As for practical politics, I think a "march" of "Godless Americans" for political recognition is a really bad idea, for reasons many people have frequently expounded. Oh yeah, a really bad idea. Also not a very realistic viewpoint. In every inhabited universe, there must be billions of simulations running in every advanced civilization, and simulations running inside the simulations.... So the odds are very good for any given conscious being, such as you, that you are in a simulation. There are probably lots of gods stacked up above you, level after level. Of course that doesn't make it reasonable or moral to worship them, just like it wasn't reasonable or moral for Cargo Cultists to worship the US Marines and their C-47s. But getting into a Meme War with every big Meme on the planet probably ain't such a great idea, and direct frontal attack is usually not the best strategy for small weak groups whose goal is to mind their own business. A "March For Religious Freedom" might make sense; a "March to Declare War On All Powerful Memes" wouldn't pass the Sun Tzu test. --part1_9.2b99bf78.2a756aa1_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19631