Takei's point is made and certainly I agree. Then my mind wandered off to other things. Of course this is why we have joke religions like
Pastafarianism, the
Church of the SubGernius,
Discordianism, etc. The religious reply is that stuff's just made up, while our beliefs are eternal truths hallowed by tradition. Got me thinking, what would it take to craft a memeplex that lasts hundreds or thousands of years, with traditions, rites, observances, symbols recognizable across millenia?
Neal Stephenson's Anathem seems divisive among nerds, but it's one of my all-time favorite books for its sense of time, and yeah I love the idea of
Long Now Foundation too. I've been doing the LessWrong/atheist thing of marking the solstices and equinoxes.
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