If you mean to imply that THE END OF THE WORLD can be interpreted as being a personal phenomenon—as suicidal Bokononists believe—I think you will find that is not what many DOOM-mongers are actually saying. Many of them are actually talking about THE END OF THE WORLD. Or in some cases, the whole universe. Really.
according to the monkey brain the death of your values is the end of the world since those other social systems based on other wrong values obviously won’t work and will lead to death and destruction ;)
With humans there are memes as well as genes to consider—since we are a symbiosis. The underlying theory of replicator maximisation is much the same, though.
DOOM: TEOTWAWKI—http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH31AcOmSjs
yawn. the huge numbers throughout history who died in conflicts between competing value systems would disagree that their hypothesis is wrong.
If you mean to imply that THE END OF THE WORLD can be interpreted as being a personal phenomenon—as suicidal Bokononists believe—I think you will find that is not what many DOOM-mongers are actually saying. Many of them are actually talking about THE END OF THE WORLD. Or in some cases, the whole universe. Really.
according to the monkey brain the death of your values is the end of the world since those other social systems based on other wrong values obviously won’t work and will lead to death and destruction ;)
Biology suggests that animals mostly act as though they are concerned with their own inclusive fitness.
Well, except for homo sapiens.
With humans there are memes as well as genes to consider—since we are a symbiosis. The underlying theory of replicator maximisation is much the same, though.