RE: virus: <I> is the origin

Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:33:49 -0800

I say that core needs cannot change because (1) that's how I define "core needs" and (2) I find that it's a more productive path to fulfill such needs constructively than to try to change them.

I do think that people have changed their conception of what their core needs are, but that, looking back, generally they see that they were there all along.

Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme" Free newsletter! http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf Of David McFadzean
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 10:41 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: RE: virus: <I> is the origin

At 07:58 AM 3/23/99 -0800, Richard Brodie wrote:

>I believe you can, with much work, choose and change your core values. But
>you cannot change your core needs for fulfillment.

Why do you say they cannot change? Do mean that no-one's core needs have ever changed to your knowledge? Or that no-one has ever consciously changed their core needs? Or that it isn't worth the effort to change them? Or that it is conceptually impossible to change them? 

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