Howard Bloom - Human Quotes

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We must build a picture of the human soul that works.... a recognition that the enemy is within us and that Nature has placed it there.... for a reason. And we must understand that reason to outwit her.

Howard Bloom

The greatest human evils are not those that individuals perform in private, the tiny transgressions against some arbitrary social standard we call sins. The ultimate evils are the mass murders that occur in revolution and war, the large-scale savageries that arise when one agglomeration of humans tries to dominate another: the deeds of the social group.... only group efforts can save us from the sporadic insanities of the group.

Howard Bloom

When Richard Dawkins first published his idea of a meme, he made it clear he was speaking of "a unit of imitation"… Memes were supposed to be exclusive triumphs of humanity. But memes come in two different kinds—behavioral and verbal.... behavioral memes began brain-hopping long before there were such things as human minds.

Howard Bloom