IdeaJungle
" I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss, fruits,
grains, esculent roots,
And am stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over,
And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
But call any thing back again when I desire it."
-- Walt Whitman
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Here's how it would look in Mozilla or Netscape 6Why IdeaJungle? Because I believe in what Richard Dawkins first said in The Selfish Gene. He called our ideas "memes" suggesting that they replicate and combine like genes, and also implying that our relationship with memes is similar to our relationship with genes. Just as we live because our genes survived in the past, ideas will live or die based on our survival. We are the arena of their competition.
All of us are just carriers for the spreading contagion of ideas. The pace is increasing. Now that we are being bound together in currents of digital words and images a new life is coming into existence. Something new, something wonderful will spring from this someday. Just as the butterfly is the fruit of eons of random, undirected competition, ideas will dance together and carry us aloft with them.