This is also, not to uncan more worms, one of the reasons I'm still big on religion -- with the dogma and hierarchy peeled off of it like so much fungal smut, of course. Traditional religions, especially the Eastern and mystical varieties, are just so full of good methods for resisting those RRP traps.
In fact, I'm just paranoid enough to see the tendency of religion to turn hierarchical and coercive as a direct attack upon those anti-RRP techniques by Bad Memetic Critters. Not a conscious attack, exactly, but directed and intentional in the same way that evolution is intentional. Parasitism, subverting your most dangerous potential predator, is a classic survival technique after all. Why just wipe out mysticism and its liberating potential, when you can subvert it and use it as a lure?
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Date: 2008-03-20 11:32 pm (UTC)In fact, I'm just paranoid enough to see the tendency of religion to turn hierarchical and coercive as a direct attack upon those anti-RRP techniques by Bad Memetic Critters. Not a conscious attack, exactly, but directed and intentional in the same way that evolution is intentional. Parasitism, subverting your most dangerous potential predator, is a classic survival technique after all. Why just wipe out mysticism and its liberating potential, when you can subvert it and use it as a lure?