Re: Central questions of memetics

From: Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 08:42:37 BST

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From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
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    On Mon, 22 May 2000, chuck wrote:
    >Richard Brodie wrote:
    >
    >> Chuck wrote:
    >>
    >> <<It's when people start talking about memes like
    >> fax machines and computer operating systems as "useless" and lots of other
    >> stuff
    >> like that that I came to that conclusion.>>
    >>
    >> I'm not sure what people you're referring to.
    >
    >Again - I went into this in detail. Please let me know.

    That claim of yours was refuted, Chuck -- shown to rest upon the conflation
    of "useless" with "unnecessary". 

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Robin Faichney

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