Re: Useless memes

From: Bill Spight (bspight@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun May 14 2000 - 18:35:58 BST

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From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net>
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    Dear Lawrence,

    > I think of the VietNam war as one, in the United States, of almost pure
    > memetic content; a war in which memes replaced policy, analysis and debate
    > -- a memetic war. And I think the style has endured in later US
    > wars: Somalia, Iraq, Kossovo.
    >

    Very interesting! :-)

    Would you say more about that? I would like to hear your thoughts
    on these matters.

    Best,

    Bill

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