Re: Central questions of memetics

From: Chuck Palson (cpalson@mediaone.net)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 11:29:28 BST

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    Richard Brodie wrote:

    > 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? ;-)

    Good point! If you could come up with the point in history that it was still
    a cult and how everything developed from that and framed it in one of your
    memic theories, you'de have a best seller. Imagine, the academic virus!

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