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A Memetics Reader
"This Memetics Reader could be considered as a basic overview of memetics and some applications within advertising, religious studies, psychohistory and contemporary subcultures. My research trajectory was influenced by my fascination with the late Gnosis Magazine and the science fiction author Philip K. Dick. I was freelancing for the Australian science/culture magazine 21.C and considering the initiatory/philosophical implications of Cyberpunk while in the Temple of Set."
Terence McKenna: Mind Contagions
"I cannot see beyond the human/machine global fusion of 2012. Asking what lies beyond that is like asking someone in the 13th century to accurately envision the societies and technologies of the late 20th century. It simply cannot be done, we are lacking essential facts that will arrive each in their own good time as we move toward the Singularity."
Is Futures Studies a Science or an Art?
"American technocratic mind-sets were soon challenged by blowback from geopolitical crises, including the Vietnam conflict and the 1973 OPEC oil crisis. Management by Objectives gave way to scenario-driven planning and computer simulations. 'Big science' was simultaneously facing a post-positivist revolt, which began trickling with Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), (Bell, 1997: 198), grew with Paul Feyrabend's Against Method (1975) and became a flood of postmodernist critiques. This philosophical battle would be repeated, during the following decades, in the controversies regarding the epistemological status of sociobiology, memetics and evolutionary psychology."
US Terrorist Attacks: Nevermind bin Laden, Here's the Arms Trade
"If, on the contrary, the goal of social activists is to reduce the likelihood of further atrocities, and to advance hopes for freedom, human rights, and democracy, then they should follow the opposite course. They should intensify their efforts to inquire into the background factors [emphasis added] that lie behind these and other crimes and devote themselves with even more energy to the just causes to which they have already been committed. The opportunities are surely there."
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