marcel chelba: yours enemies are the merchants that will keep you in the treasury of their soul

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Marcel Chelba

Yours enemies are the merchants that will keep you in the

treasury of their soul

A comment in Scientific American, March 29, 2011,on the article: The Anti-Predictor: A Chat with

Mathematical Sociologist Duncan Watts, by MarinaKrakovsky

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=duncan-watts-book

I just wrote a letter to a friend where I said:

To really reach the public consciousness, actually means tobecome folklore. You can not claim copyright for a cry of

despair or a tsunami warning. Yours enemies are the merchantsthat will keep you in the treasury of their soul (as a sacredobject or as a collection piece) and will carry you forward intothe consciousness of the world. Yours killers, and yoursplagiarist are actually yours rescuers the priests of your

salvation (public consecration). This is the mechanism of

culture propagation in history. Greek culture, for example,could not come and enrich Western culture until after Athenswas destroyed and plundered by ancient Rome. A Plato'sdialogue on the stall of a Greek merchant envy, but on the stallof a demobee Roman centurion (a former combatant in the

siege of Athens) aroused admiration.

And I've illustrated with an old Romanian folk ballad called
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"Miorita" ("The Small Ewe-lamb) which is about a youngshepherd who, when he finds out (from a "small ewe-lamb)that two other shepherds want to kill him and take his flock, he

says let it be, but to bury me here, behind the sheepfold, tohear my dogs, and to let my pipes (of beech, of bone and ofelderwood) at the head of my grave, so that you can hear me,when the wind will blows. Then the shepherd says thatnobody should complain about him because he will be notdead, but married to Eternity went to a royal wedding

(mountains as the witnesses, trees as the guests, the orchestraof thousands of birds) with the princess of a heavenly king.

What irritates almost all exegetes is the fact that the youngshepherd accepts his death with equanimity he does not seemworried about his personal life, but his spiritual legacy. Its true

spiritual testament is even the encrypted message of the ballad:Culture is transmitted only through rape and mimicry. Nobodyspreads a new idea to put in light its discoverer, but himself. If

you really want to produce major changes in the mentality ofpeople you have to accept to be stolen (plagiarized) by those

who hate you, not to keep endless preachings for those wholove you.

This article is very exciting.As far as I understand it is confronted two antinomic theories:

the Free Lunch Theory and the Law of the Few.

Free Lunch Theory is excellent illustrated by "Miorita isthe theory that an idea does not turn out across the world (inthe consciousness of the masses) until it was emaciated of itshistorical identity (separated from its author). Its strengthcomes from its own internal joints.

The Law of the Few is a version of idola tribus (theargument of authority in the sense of Bacon) a theory that

ideas draw their validity from the public authority of their


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promoter.Still have meditated on these things.I believe that both theories are valid, but each in some limits.

Marcel Chelba

To be seen:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miori%C5%A3a

http://spiritromanesc.go.ro/Miorita%20-eng.html
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