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Hi John,
<If this analysis by Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson,
> based on close interviews of 100,000 people are
> correct, we could expect there would be three sets of
> "memeplexes" currently competing for adherents in
> America at the moment.>
>
Two things of interest here. First, methodological- close
interviews of 100,000 people? What did they have like 100 researchers, or
did it take them 20 years? How close is close? Was it really interview
based, or more like a questionnaire? (How did they get funding for such an
enterprise?)
Second, I think most revealing is the absence of declared ideologies
here. What these categories display is typical of late capitalist democracy
where in fact there aren't distinct ideological differences between people,
but instead people are issue-oriented. So people can share pro-market
views, but be bitterly divided over abortion say. Of course many would say
that this end of history, third way, non-ideological era of politics is an
illusion created by the right, and successful mainly because the left failed
to play the propaganda game in Western nations. It is not a society of two
of three competing memeplexes, but a one dimensional society as Marcuse
famously said. But that's just blather, the methodological stuff is what
I'm interested in here.
Vincent
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