What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection.

Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this kind of fallacy 'the Argument from Personal Incredulity.' Time and again, it has proven the prelude to an intellectual banana-skin experience.

Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.