MEME's

As I promised by my last post, I will bring up the subject of memes. But only a short intro at the moment, for I plan to write a much larger and more in depth philosophical post on memes as soon as I finish a book that I'm reading and I have time to go back and brush up my thinking on books I've already read.

The Definition of a meme: " consists of any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. Examples include thoughts, ideas, theories, practices, habits, songs, dances and moods and terms such as race, culture, and ethnicity"

"Hey Jude" is a meme. The Macarena dance is a meme. Christianity is a meme. A thetan is an imaginary soul to do with scientology, but is also a meme.

So you might ask..what's the big deal? Well Richard Dawkins revolutionary idea was that meme's are also subject to the laws of natural selection just like genes. Meme's do not desire to be replicated and passed on from human to human..no more than the common cold virus 'wants' to pass from person to person. But based on their fitness (their ability to spread aka replicate themselves in the minds of humans) they either continue to get passed on, or they die out.

"Hey Jude" still exists because people enjoy it a lot and still play it. A lot of memes exist because they are helpful to human beings (getting vaccination shots) would be one while others such as bloodletting die out because they are found out to be not helpful to humans.

So far so good. Good memes that help out humans last, while bad memes eventually die out...but its not so simple. Some memes are good at getting themselves replicated, but by their design are harmful to the human minds they infiltrate.

A perfect example of this is the Muslim meme of "if you suicide yourself for the muslim faith you will be awarded 72 virgins in heaven." This meme destroys the mind it gets passed on to, but it gets the person who killed themselves some recognition and on the news and more people find out about the "72 virgins in heaven" meme, which further spreads the meme.

These memes are called meme viruses.

Christianity is one such meme virus. It is so powerful that unlike other memes like "Hey Jude" it takes over the mind it infiltrates and gets the human to devote his or her life in service of the meme, getting the person to spend his life proselytezing and further trying to spread the meme.

Your Life Purpose Was Programmed at Birth

I'm about to tell you something so incredible as to be completely mindblowing. You are going to have difficulty wrapping your head around it at first and you won't believe it. But it is absolutely true and should you so require or request furthing reading on the subject I will happily point you in the right direction.

I'm about to tell your life purpose. You do have one. You are just unaware that you do. I am literally , and I'm not just fucking around here with hyperbole. I'm about to tell you the most astonishing thing you have ever heard in your life.

I will go so far as to say if you read this. Your life will never be the same. You have been warned.Here it is ...are you ready?You were programmed at birth to live your life and fulfill a purpose. Who did the programming? Your genes, and what was the purpose they programmed you for? To make replicas of themselves.Every part of your entire existence is programmed with instructions to complete this task. You are programmed to feel hungry so you will eat and tired when you need sleep, and fear (the flight or fight response) when you feel danger. All of this is in order to grow up and survive. The goal is to make it to the age where you are capable of reproducing. When you get to this age you are programmed to start looking around for someone to reproduce with..you need a member of the opposite sex to complete your mission. But it can't just be any member of the opposite sex, it has to be a member with good, healthy genes. This way you'll have good healthy offspring who have a better chance of giving you grandchildren and further replicating your genes. This is why you are attracted to healthy looking males or females, not fat disgusting sick ones.

But it is not enough for you to be attracted to the female, for then you would just have sex with her and leave and she would be all alone to raise the child. the child and therefore your genes would have a better chance of surviving if you were around to help. So your genes programmed you with the ability to feel an emotion..we call it Love. This emotion you'll feel around your spouse and your offspring is so powerful that it will ensure you stick around to raise them.

This is the life purpose that you have been programmed for. To replicate the genes in your body. Almost everything you do, whether conscious or unconscious is directed toward this aim.

Your genes are in control. The entire purpose of your life is to do what they want you to do.

The only exception is that of when your brain gets hijacked by memes. That is an evernmore mindblowing discussion, and perhaps the topic of my next post.

Me The Writer Vs Me in Real Life

For those that know me in real life, there are numerous adjectives that probably come to mind when they think of me...

cool, funny, a leader of men... and I'll stop there.....for pigheaded would not definetely be one of them.. but for sure these people would notice a disconnect between Jevan the writer and Jevan the abnormally well endowed living person.

Why is that?

You see, I only write when I'm in a certain state of mind..a state of mind that DEMANDS that something creative flow out of me, that I put my thoughts into physical reality and make them concrete. Something more than just fleeting images in my brain. My mind tends to be very chaotic, more chaotic than other people..perhaps..I don't know, I'd love to live inside someone else's brain for a while (but that's a whole different post) and find out.

I only write when I'm in the mood for writing, and I'm rarely in the mood for writing..but when I am and I actually put my pen to the paper, or in this case, beautiful yet masculine fingers to the keyboard..this is what flows out. 90% unedited, ...I just write whatever comes to mind.

Jevan the writer tends to be a fairly intense individual, with a knack for hyperbole. Writing is just more interesting that way...but if you ever met me on the street you wouldn't be meeting the same person..you'd be meeting a ...well to be honest you'd be too enchanted by my gorgeous eyes to notice anything else...