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You mean it's not still a cult?
Another best-seller... my head will get too big.
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
http://www.memecentral.com/rbrodie.htm
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From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
Of Chuck Palson
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 3:29 AM
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Central questions of memetics
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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