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I'm not sure that ideas are the realm of the eather. Rather, I believe our ideas are part of who we are, and we are part of them. It is essentially similar to the argument of man being separate from nature. I don't believe he is. We are part of it, and we are made of it. Of course the substrate for ideas is minds, and the substrate for minds is brains.
If you break it down to it's atomic form, memes, then perhaps I agree, they are neither good or evil. That would be like calling letters of the alphabet, or words good or evil. But wouldn't you agree that we can build things out of these which qualify as good or evil? Of course it does still require that one special ingredient: belief.
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David Brooks
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