The future of evil

[Rami Rustom]

I posted an exert from Rand's _The Virtue of Selfishness_ to
islam-watch.org. It was on the topic of faith. A muslim called it
garbage. A non-muslim said this in response, and then I replied. Do
you see any problems with my response?

> typical Muslim reaction...if you don't understand something, condemn it.

Actually that reaction is typical of how most people anywhere in the
world would react to great thinkers. Generally speaking, the further
one's views, values, and goals are from reality, the worse they react
to great thinkers -- whose views, values, and goals correspond well
with reality.

But that is changing. Our cultures are not static. Cultures evolve.
Ideas evolve. New memes (analogous to genes) are created -- we call
this variation. And the unfit memes (analogous to genes) lose out to
better memes (analogous to genes) -- we call this natural and
artificial selection.

In this case, the unfit meme is altruism (actually its the whole set
of moral knowledge of altruism -- and actually its a memeplex, which
is a set of networked memes -- memes that generally go together).

The fit meme, actually memeplex, is Objectivism -- which is the whole
set of philosophical and moral knowledge of Objectivism.

Soon altruism will be extinct. Everybody will be an Objectivist.

Another unfit memeplex is the Justified True Belief, the epistemology
created by Aristotle and still has to this day 99.9+% penetration in
the human population. The fit memeplex is Popperism.

Soon Justified True Belief will be extinct. And everybody will be a Popperian.

And soon after that all evil memes will be extinct.


PS

- Popperism is the philosophy created by Karl Popper. I good source to
learn about Popperism is http://fallibleideas.com/knowledge-creation

- And a good source to learn Objectivism is the rest of Elliot
Temple's site: http://fallibleideas.com/

- This is where we discuss these ideas and more:
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-- Rami Rustom
http://ramirustom.blogspot.com