Re: Example of an aggresive irrational meme

From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@cogeco.ca)
Date: Sat Mar 02 2002 - 21:07:58 GMT

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From: Keith Henson <hkhenson@cogeco.ca>
Subject: Re: Example of an aggresive irrational meme
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    At 10:35 AM 02/03/02 -0900, you wrote:

    snip

    >Of course, qualifiers like `aggressive', 'nice' or 'selfish' pertain only to
    >decision making
    >entities. In memetics when we say a meme is aggressive, selfish we mean that
    >in a metaphorical
    >not literal way. An aggressive meme is a meme that is designed to emphasize
    >on transmission
    >rather than virtue.
    >
    >Philip.

    A good way of putting it.

    Keith

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