Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA24505 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 18 Mar 2000 15:36:04 GMT Subject: Re: your mail Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 10:34:08 -0500 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20000318153405.AAA29399@camailp.harvard.edu@[204.96.32.216]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Robert Logan made this comment not too long ago --
>Memes obviously resonate with many scholars from many different fields
And, as well, they resonate with sorely scholarly-lacking laymen like
myself who are on that 'searching' jag. I think, at their core, there
really is a charm about memes that lets them be the reason we are
different from the nature that begat us- and I do think we are looking
for that specific answer, to that specific question- why we are
different.
Socio-biology (all by itself the object of just as much ridicule and
puffery as any meme has ever seen) is a liberating (and dangerous)
pursuit, in that, while it does indeed answer the question, pretty
specifically too, we are still left with the nagging itch of the self,
shaking into uncooperative and unrebuildable pieces upon examination.
It may well be that we _could_ find it all from the analyzation of our
bodies and the movements we make with them in the places they go, but we
are still left with the strange discomfit of feeling the thing we are
bringing with us.
And it is this discomfit that a meme seems to fit into.
- Wade
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