From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 21 Nov 2002 - 20:59:09 GMT
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>
> Vincent Campbell wrote:
> >
> > >
> > What you're missing here Joe is that we're talking about
> > political
> > opinions, and if these are memes then we're both engaging in them-
> > you in a heartfelt degree of patriotism, myself in an understandably
> > more distanced and cautious cynicism (understandable not because I'm
> > right, but because I'm sitting in a country a few thousand miles
> > closer to the mid-east, and in a country with a very different
> > political history and culture to yours).
> >
> > Vincent
> >
>
> implied perhaps in all of this, is that just as there are prescriptive
> linguistics and descriptive linguistics, the thorough subjective
> identification that is being shown by some here, in the guise of
> patriotism, with the 'memes' that are supposed to be the object of
> study, there is prescriptive memetics and descriptive memetics. the
> division is not clearly stated, perhaps not recognised, in memetics
> (or at least this list) as it is not clearly recognised in my field,
> law.
>
It must also be recognized that the euro views are just as susceptible to
such memetic distortions as are the views which they oppose, although
they tend to both accuse others of such distortions and deny their
presence in themselves.
>
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