If Moses, Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus and St. Paul can be considered living influences — and they are: look around the world — this is only because their Signal has been carried to us by human symbol systems. These systems include words, artworks, music, rituals and unrecognized rituals (“games”) through which culture is transmitted. Marx and Hitler, Newton and Socrates, Shakespeare and Jefferson, etc. continue to “rule” parts of humanity in the same way — through the semantic circuit. We are ruled even more, and even less consciously, by the inventors of the wheel, the plow, the
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