What is “the rule of ideas” and how does it relate to a Promethean society?
In the general sense the rule of ideas refers to both the traceable and the unpredictably complex influences and ramifications of ideas (by all meanings including conceptions, significations, models, memes and meme complexes, implicit philosophical assumptions, etc.), which “rule” in a sense “governs” all adaptive social interaction to a considerable extent, and always has in all human culture. (It includes any changes which Prometheanism may inspire in you, for example, or even the ramifications of these very words for you as your read them.) Political rulers, bureaucrats, demagogues and others often attempt to manipulate this effect today by controlling the flow of information, deceiving with disinformation, and propagating propaganda. More specifically the rule of ideas in a Promethean society refers to an alternative to these mostly unwitting, and sneaky manipulative approaches to ideological influence in modern societies: supplementing whatever ideas otherwise happen to arise in a
