Fun with Semiotics

I must give credit to Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson for this one:
an example of a mathematical distribution function PRINTED ON the front of the German ten-mark banknote (1989-2001, in honor of German mathemetician Carl Friedrich Gauss).

Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson - The Amazing Meeting 6, ~32:00 minutes

Consumer/Producer

The individual uses, the collective creates
Production may continue to be instrumentally rational and analytic, but consumption is many-stranded and intuitive, and products are designed to encourage this: What happens when consumption overtakes production and becomes the dominant element in forming the human psyche? (p272)

Plough, Sword and Book
Ernest Gellner
U. of Chicago Press
1988

Durkheim's Ritual

Durkheim: Ritual is for instilling concepts in individuals, from the society.

On the Division of Labor in Non-Humans

Something resembling cultural diversity may occur…The identical genetic equipment may allow some variation in conduct and organization of (say) a herd. (p273)

Very often, social change is simply far too rapid to be explicable by genetic change.

From society comes culture
Memes are in the culture, not the individual? –sure they are transmitted by the individual but the memepool is in the culture itself

Plough, Sword and Book
Ernest Gellner
U. of Chicago Press
1988

Meme-World

Most men see their environment not as nature but as other people. (p267)

Plough, Sword and Book
Ernest Gellner
U. of Chicago Press
1988

Truth, Belief and Society

Truth butters no parsnips and legitimates no social arrangements. There are at least 2 reasons for this. One is the failure of genuine knowledge to be subservient. The second is that publicly accessible truth fails to separate members of a community from non-members. (p272)

Plough, Sword and Book
Ernest Gellner
U. of Chicago Press
1988

Zoning Laws in the Metaverse

At what point will the laws be written to limit the sound levels in public places? (geosynchronous metaversal-type public places, that is)