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 Marina Krakovsky http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=duncanwatts-book

I just wrote a letter to a friend where I said: To really reach the public consciousness, actually means to become folklore. You can not claim copyright for a cry of despair or a tsunami warning. Yours enemies are the merchants that will keep you in the treasury of their soul (as a sacred object or as a collection piece) and will carry you forward into the consciousness of the world. Yours killers, and yours plagiarist 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 Athens was destroyed and plundered by ancient Rome. A Plato's dialogue on the stall of a Greek merchant envy, but on the stall of 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

"Miorita" ("The Small Ewe-lamb) which is about a young shepherd 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, to hear my dogs, and to let my pipes (of beech, of bone and of elderwood) at the head of my grave, so that you can hear me, when the wind will blows. Then the shepherd says that nobody should complain about him because he will be not dead, but married to Eternity went to a royal wedding (mountains as the witnesses, trees as the guests, the orchestra of thousands of birds) with the princess of a heavenly king. What irritates almost all exegetes is the fact that the young shepherd accepts his death with equanimity he does not seem worried 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. Nobody spreads a new idea to put in light its discoverer, but himself. If you really want to produce major changes in the mentality of people you have to accept to be stolen (plagiarized) by those who hate you, not to keep endless preachings for those who love 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 is the theory that an idea does not turn out across the world (in the consciousness of the masses) until it was emaciated of its historical identity (separated from its author). Its strength comes from its own internal joints. The Law of the Few is a version of idola tribus (the argument of authority in the sense of Bacon) a theory that ideas draw their validity from the public authority of their

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