From: | Justin Fang <justinf@****.CALTECH.EDU> |
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Subject: | Abbadon |
Date: | Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:21:22 -0700 |
symptomatic of the fundamental flaws in his worldview. I do not expect him
to understand this, either; but perhaps my explanation will help someone
else.
Children are potential; they are the resources of the future. To wantonly
destroy potential the way Abbadon does is criminally stupid; if a CEO
squndered capital that way the shareholders would revolt.
Abbadon and his ilk cannot intellectually handle all the wonderous
complexity of the real world; their worldviews are innately incapable of
doing so. To function at all they need to contruct a simple, mentally
unchallenging fantasy world, bleach the rainbow colors of reality into drab
grays, seperate the grays into pure black and white.
What he fails to comprehend, what his kind have always failed to comprehend,
is that in diversity there is strength. An inbred species is headed for
extinction; only genetic diversity will give it the reserves necessary to
adapt to changing conditions. An ecossytem needs a wide range of species to
be healthy. So, too, do societies need a wide variety of ideas--high
memetic diverity--to survive. Ideological and genetic monocultures are
fragile; systems where genes and memes are free to mix and recombine are
strong and vital.
Abbadon seeks purity, but will find only stagnation. His paradigm cannot
survive competition with paradigms not crippled by fear-of-difference and
fear-of-change. He would be pitiful in his incapacity, were he not so
dangerous. He will fail, and he will fall, as did the Soviets and the
Nazis before him.]<<<<<
-- Cassandra <08:51:37/04-18-59>
>>>>>[The metas are the bastard spawn of Cain and Lilith, cursed by God and
forever cast out from His light! They are soulless abominations that bear
the mark of their master, Satan! They must be destroyed by the Cleansing
Fire!]<<<<<
-- PureBlood <09:14:41/04-18-59>
>>>>>[You see? Textbook case of terminal ideolological
paralysis.]<<<<<
-- Cassandra <09:17:27/04-18-59>