Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA15424 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 19 May 2000 16:26:43 +0100 Message-ID: <39251788.8BF7CDC8@mediaone.net> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:29:28 +0100 From: Chuck Palson <cpalson@mediaone.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Central questions of memetics References: <NBBBIIDKHCMGAIPMFFPJGEHKENAA.richard@brodietech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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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