Inspired by Dawkins
In the past genetic inheritance went hand-in-hand with mimetic continuance.
The homogeneity of the group ensured that whatever shared values, principles, morals, ideals, ideas, were passed on they were always common, no matter who the father was.
The female was, and is, the carrier of tradition. She adds nothing, subtracts nothing and remains totally loyal to it.
Females never experiment, because they are attracted to stability, order (masculinity) which ensures their value and the value of their offspring.
Male order offers them stability, social peace.
A predictable space to exploit their natural talents.
A female will always defend whatever masculine power she is seduced by early on.
This is why a mother is the "heart" of a family, and why females take so easily to institution or cultures.
She will never challenge the status quo, or question its premises, but only act to preserve and to enhance them...to her benefit.
The male, on the other hand, is the one who must challenge authority, if he is to pass on his own genes.
He is disruptive to the status quo.
To prevent this masculine proclivity from tearing apart tribes the technology of marriage, based on the principle of monogamy, was invented. This turned the "free-radical" males into investors in the group's welfare.
This in homogeneous groups, where all the males shared in a genetic inheritance but, more so, shared in common values, ideals, and ideas.
This is not the case today.
Modernity, as a continuance of the universal Christian dogma, is a Meme which wishes to incorporate divergent genetic lines, peoples carrying different values, principles, ideas and ideals, into one uniform, stable, whole.
To accomplish this it must eliminate the natural connections and identifications....and so it must eliminate the carriers of such codes: males.
Females will fall in line easily...and in time they will become vehement defenders of whatever is popular, and current.
For a female it is an easy affair: what is dominant today, in her time and place, is superior...therefore it will be defended for it promises stability and establishes order within which a female can carry out her role as nurturer and mother.
But there is another breed of female. One which is more aware, more intelligent, more discriminating than the average.
For her the present, the popular, is not automatically superior to the past or the unpopular.
She knows the difference between quantity and quality.
For such a female breeding with an average man would be like breeding with an ape...even if he belongs, theoretically, to her race and her bloodline.
If the male carries the principles and values of Modernity, then he is an emasculated male....which may be similar to her, Genetically, but has nothing in common with her Mimetically.
Feminization has progressed so far in our time that genetic lineage is not a guarantor of mimetic lineage.
There has been a rupture between the past and the present, now projected as a Utopian future.
Take the modern Greeks.
They are infected with Judeo-Christian morals, ideals, values...and have little to do with the Hellenes they are descendants of.
In fact, they, most of them, are the antithesis to them.
It is possible today to find more real Greeks outside modern Greece...Nietzsche was more of a Greek than many of them are.
Memes are how cultures are propagated.
Genes pass on a potential that may or may not be realized to its fullest, but it does not guarantee that the ideals that sprung from a particular genetic pool will find fertile ground in a mind infected with modern nihilism.
This is particularly true in a world where the inferior male, and female, has been given the "right" to pass on genes which may not be representative of the group's best qualities.
The nihilistic infection works from the bottom up. It infects the rabble, the lowest elements in a group.
It is a meme that has appeal across genetic lines, because it seduces the basest elements in the species...now reproduced due to the absence of natural culling, becoming increasingly numerous, drowning out the qualities which inspired the emergence of a tribe.
This universalization of weakness, of meekness, cannot be combated by remaining stuck in tribal qualifications.
Mimetic warfare is one performed on a noetic level.
A shared meme must find its fighters from amongst a larger genetic pool.
Genes/Memes
Re: Genes/Memes
Where memes develop, evolve, organically, gradually springing out of the (inter)activity of a population with a given environment, resulting in ideas, ideals, morals, principles, social behaviors, hierarchies and traditions....there are some that follow a reverse path.
There are some which begin as an idea, ideal, infecting the segments of a population feeling vulnerable or victimized by the interaction between population and environment, seeking for an alternative which might overturn established hierarchies.
Whereas memes begin humbly and then spread, if they are strong enough, across tribal and temporal boundaries, these last types of memes begin as universal, transcendental, appeals to the lowest parts of a group's nature.
They are not restricted because they are instantaneously universal, as they seduce the fear and the sexual need present in all mammals, instead of appealing to the higher brain, the noble part of human nature.
This makes them worldly...cosmopolitan...and deeply nihilistic.
If such a meme is successful it may gain power...and attempt to turn its ideology into a pragmatic phenomenon; turn its mimetic appeal into a genetic fact.
Here resentment finds an outlet in mimicry. It begins from lowly origins but then aspires to be like the memes it infected, in effect contradicting itself.
Zionism is an example of this process.
But the segments that remain true to their origins try to destroy the rightist elements amongst them...the elements preaching exclusivity....the special nature of this burgeoning tribe, not yet fully so.
Exclusivity or the denouncement of mixing is considered detrimental and contradictory to the essence of the nihilistic meme.
Therefore, we have a further universality which does away with more than just race and sex but attempts to destroy the boundaries of tribes and nationalities and religious doctrine.
The nihilistic meme morphs into a secular version, no longer hindered by the restrictions of religion or nationalism.
Marxism is an example of this.
But an all-leveling meme exposes its anti-life, anti-world attitude because if it follows through with its own logic extinction will be the result....beginning with anti-species...with the redefinition of family and of what sexuality and sex are.
At this point homosexuality will not be the only sexual mutation that gains social acceptance, but a variety of sexual mutations will also become acceptable.
There are some which begin as an idea, ideal, infecting the segments of a population feeling vulnerable or victimized by the interaction between population and environment, seeking for an alternative which might overturn established hierarchies.
Whereas memes begin humbly and then spread, if they are strong enough, across tribal and temporal boundaries, these last types of memes begin as universal, transcendental, appeals to the lowest parts of a group's nature.
They are not restricted because they are instantaneously universal, as they seduce the fear and the sexual need present in all mammals, instead of appealing to the higher brain, the noble part of human nature.
This makes them worldly...cosmopolitan...and deeply nihilistic.
If such a meme is successful it may gain power...and attempt to turn its ideology into a pragmatic phenomenon; turn its mimetic appeal into a genetic fact.
Here resentment finds an outlet in mimicry. It begins from lowly origins but then aspires to be like the memes it infected, in effect contradicting itself.
Zionism is an example of this process.
But the segments that remain true to their origins try to destroy the rightist elements amongst them...the elements preaching exclusivity....the special nature of this burgeoning tribe, not yet fully so.
Exclusivity or the denouncement of mixing is considered detrimental and contradictory to the essence of the nihilistic meme.
Therefore, we have a further universality which does away with more than just race and sex but attempts to destroy the boundaries of tribes and nationalities and religious doctrine.
The nihilistic meme morphs into a secular version, no longer hindered by the restrictions of religion or nationalism.
Marxism is an example of this.
But an all-leveling meme exposes its anti-life, anti-world attitude because if it follows through with its own logic extinction will be the result....beginning with anti-species...with the redefinition of family and of what sexuality and sex are.
At this point homosexuality will not be the only sexual mutation that gains social acceptance, but a variety of sexual mutations will also become acceptable.
Re: Genes/Memes
DNA is to Genes what Semiotics is to Memes.
Re: Genes/Memes
Gene = memory/experience manifesting presence, interpreted as appearance.
Meme = memory (tradition, knowledge/understanding) converted/translated into representational symbols/language.
Like all art forms language is used in two general ways:
1-as representations of reality.
2-as representations of the artist's reaction to reality.
Conventional use is determined by these factors.
Language carries the accumulated memories of a people and how they reacted to environmental circumstances.
Just like species and sub-species (breeds, races, kinds) represent a relationship with environment, over long periods of time, so does culture represent how a specific people evolved and related with their environment and the circumstances the faced and survived.
Meme = memory (tradition, knowledge/understanding) converted/translated into representational symbols/language.
Like all art forms language is used in two general ways:
1-as representations of reality.
2-as representations of the artist's reaction to reality.
Conventional use is determined by these factors.
Language carries the accumulated memories of a people and how they reacted to environmental circumstances.
Just like species and sub-species (breeds, races, kinds) represent a relationship with environment, over long periods of time, so does culture represent how a specific people evolved and related with their environment and the circumstances the faced and survived.