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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 6:15 PM
Subject: RE: Central questions of memetics
> The problem with that is that this is cultural relativism all over again.
> People do weird things because it means something to their group. How
does
> this help us understand human behaviour? We want to know why those
specific
> things like sock colour become important to groups and individuals.
<< I think you have to begin your search into philosophy and specific into
the chapter of " identity ".
The main thing there is that our identity is based upon what other people
say about us. Sock colour becomes important to groups and individuals
because it is helping us to point the place we take as a subject in the
world.
An individualist is in contrast someone who, for whatever reason, dropped
out
of that, then collective identity-process. Let me explain.
I am maybe rightly just an individualist because there were far too few
words
said to point my place as a subject. My parents died when I was a young
boy, therefor many words which must have been spoken out to build up my
identity have been lost. I' ve developped over against the world I live in
an insufficient " identity ". Sock colour is of no importance to me, I
belong ,as
far as I know to no group and as an individual I don't care what others say
about the colour of my socks.
But, for the record, I don't wear red socks with orange pants and yellow
shirts ! >>
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