From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 22:08:24 BST
Dear ? (naming her/himself Squonk),
You wrote 13/10 10:51 -0400:
'The main body of exploration in your posts appear to be memetic. Why not
start using memes yourself as social patterns of value?'
Genes are the static latch of the biological level. 'Meme' is too general
for me: I need different terms for the static latches of the social and the
intellectual level.
Your tendency to choose from among the other contributors to this list one
or more that you try to chase off by treating them disrespectfully and
spending lots of e-mails on it irritates me. So does (to a lesser extent)
your statement that your real name 'is of no consequence to anyone' while I
have repeatedly stated that it IS of consequence to me. The coherence and
consistency of the different postings of the same person is an important
aspect of the intellectual pattern of values (the MoQ) that we are trying to
build and maintain in this list. 'If every post of [yours] could be sent
under a differing name' your contribution would be only background noise and
distraction, as the all too frequent abuse (not only by you) of fellow
contributors on this list. Is that the kind of obscurity you are happy to
dissolve into? Imagine Pirsig writing 'Zen and the art ...', 'Lila', the
SODV-paper, his annotations of 'Lila's Child' etc. all under different
names, leaving us no certainty about it all having the same author... His
MoQ would not have stood much of a chance, would it? Now his legacy is -in
my experience- in danger of losing some of its chances of survival because
of the noise on this list.
Erin wrote 5/10 20:59 -0400 'You don't have to have a character.' to someone
posting as 'the Pantaphobic', who also has the bad taste -in my experience-
of not adressing anyone with or signing her/his postings. I DO want people I
correspond with to have a character. I want to be able to demand personal
integrity from them and to take them to task if their different postings are
incoherend and inconsistent. Otherwise I feel we will not be able to build
and maintain the MoQ as a viable intellectual pattern of values here.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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