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INTOLERANCE

Conservative whores and Liberal sluts.

((This is a rough version of something
written out better under under DAWKINS,
though it was later lost.))

Dawkins.  Selfish gene "explanations"
for much of the "conservative whore"
stuff.  Stategies for gene propagation
that include things like searching out
men most likely/capable to assist in
child-raising, and also an explanation
for attractiveness being attractive.

Thought: Liberal intolerance a
mechanism of meme propagation?         A lot of conservatives
Like seeking like, rejecting           would have you believe
dissent, an attempt at an              that "intolerance" is
ideology spreading itself.             more of a problem among
                                       liberals than conservatives.
Conservatives=genetic determinists,
hence favor a genes eye view?                      I used to think so:
Liberals= environmental determinists,              I'd often heard
hence more likely to think in terms of             the line "I *hate*
spreading memes?  Does that make any               Republicans", but never
sense? Like, could a CW be influenced              "I hate Democrats."
by the gene view without knowing much
about the logical structure, and a LS                  That is
similarly motivated based on a                         until
different world view, without                          Keith
understanding the world view?  How                     Rabois      But maybe
would these structures evolve.                         said it     he doesn't
                                                       in the      count?
                                                       Daily
                                                       (2/10... 93?)

                                                   But there are those
Alternately, you could postulate that              Christian Fundy types
on some level they do understand what              that the more
they're doing.                                     intellectual neo-cons
                                                   might like to forget
                                                   about...

A gene that seeks out other members                     Of course, I
containing the same gene?  What purpose                 don't run into them
incest?                                                 much, in the circles
                                                        I frequent.
Possibly: incest as a superficially
appealing strategy, that produces only
short term success.  Hence discreditied
in the longer term process of genetic       OUTNICE
evolution, but still in play among some
younger ideologies in the arena of
memes.

Analogy to recessives, harmful memes
"bad ideas" may only prosper if
protected from debate, if kept out of
contact with hostile memes.

Hence bad ideas, will tend to be
associated with the intolerance meme.

(Look up studies of "group think"
in secrecy, e.g. Nixon's plumbers...)

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