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Turning and turning in the narrowing spiral
The user cannot resist those memes which are viral;
The waterline is lowered; beliefs begin to cool;
Mere tribalism is loosed, upon Lesswrong's school,
The grey-matter is killed, and everywhere
The knowledge of one's ignorance is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Heh. I'm not sure why you felt compelled to rhyme there, though; Yeats didn't.
I must confess, I have never actually heard the words 'gyre' and 'falconer'. I assumed they could be pronounced in such a way that it would sound like a rhyme. In my head, they both were pronounced like 'hear'. Likewise, I assumed one could pronounce 'world' and 'hold' in such a way that they could sort-of rhyme. In my head, 'hold' was pronounced 'held' and 'world' was pronounced 'weld.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEunVObSnVM
Apparently, this is not the case. Oops.