[MD] Social Darwinism

[Krimel]

[dmb]
Or so it seems to me. If there is a way to make the MOQ compatible with the 
theory of memes, it would surprize me. I thought the MOQ replaced the 
mechanized view of evolution in favor a volitional one even at the 
biological level. So to then transfer darwinian mechanisms to the evolution 
of language seems to reverse the correction and double the error. What could

be worse than a mechanistic, materialistic theory of meaning? Isn't "Meme" 
exactly the kind of absurdity we get when we try to explain culture in terms

of material and mechanical operations? I think so.

[Krimel]
So Dave, you think ideas and societies do not evolve? Or do they evolve on
the basis of some supernatural principle? 

Volitional evolution? Is that like eugenics or Think and Grow Rich? You know
there was this guy Lamarck and he claimed...