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  • From: Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Re:radiative evolution
  • Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:34:16 -0600

At 09:20 AM 11/15/02 -0800, you wrote:
What an interesting concept. (I actually had been musing about it since you brought it up earlier). Since a virus has no independent "life" of its own, but hijacks a host's metabolism to complete its life cycle, just about anything that makes up our social cultures could be considered "viral" by nature. How do we define culture? Just a belief system about how life works? What's important, what's not? What's right, what's wrong? The way I see it it all starts from thoughts / ideas, language being the carrier of thoughts. Instead of "idea's catching on", we then have people catching ideas (like catching a virus). Just as people are immune to some viruses, they are"immune" to some ideas.

I also have been musing on this notion. I personally like the notion of the tipping point (title of a recent book on the subject); the notion that ideas or trends build a base of support until the tipping point is reached, at which point it spills over into the general public and spreads broadly. Immunity is also an interesting analogy, what blocks acceptance of these ideas? So often it is money which I never understand here in the USA; I mean if we don't have the money who does?

Then are are those who purposely spread ideas for their own benefit (chemical warfare in this analogy?). That's were politics fits in in my mind, especially of exploitive and war mongering kind. I think I'd better keep the rest of my musings to myself....
Cheers, Heide

I can't help myself, perhaps I'll finish your thought. This war mongering by the Bushies is totally viral, all evil scare mongering with no substance, RNA in need of a cell, fear seeking a poorly informed populous ripe for exploitation. Once again the reactionary and poorly informed American populous is getting rolled for the dubious ends of the elites. And these ends are IMO more dubious and the possible downsides larger than we have faced before. Scary.

Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
608-262-1730 WK
608-846-7125 HM





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