RE: Central questions of memetics

From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 15:40:55 BST

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Subject: RE: Central questions of memetics
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    Chuck wrote:

    <<Yes, you are right. Very occasionally a cult comes along that explodes.
    But
    you'd have to be very lucky to pick a cult to study that would do that. I
    think
    that cults don't tell us as much about human beings as the study of other
    things
    do because they are too marginal.>>

    What about academia? ;-)

    Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
    http://www.memecentral.com/rbrodie.htm

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