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On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Wade T.Smith wrote:
>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.
Because you think you are.
>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.
Why am I?
Because I think I am.
Stop thinking you are.
Just be.
You're absolutely spot-on in your diagnosis, Wade. Whether you're ready to
take the treatment yet, I'm not so sure.
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