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devices, each trying to harness the universe to its own peculiar pattern, each
attempting to hoist the cosmos one step higher on a ladder of increasing
complexity.  First there is the molecular replicator, the gene.  Then there is its
successor, the meme.  And working hand in hand with each is the social
beast.
Hegel said the ultimate tragedy is not the struggle of an easily
recognized good against a clearly loathsome evil.  Tragedy, he said, is the
battle between two forces both of which are good...a battle in which only one
can win.  Nature has woven that struggle into the superorganism.
Superorganism, ideas and the pecking order--these are the primary
forces behind much of human creativity and earthly good.  They are the holy
trinity of The Lucifer Principle.
  Behind the writhing of evil is a competition between organizational
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