Re: memetics-digest V1 #1219

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat 23 Nov 2002 - 23:10:35 GMT

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    >From: "Dace" <edace@earthlink.net>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    >Subject: Re: memetics-digest V1 #1219
    >Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:56:09 -0800
    >
    >
    > > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]
    > > On Behalf Of Wade Smith
    > > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:59 PM
    > > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > > Subject: Re: Islam and Europe and Joe
    > >
    > >
    > > On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 12:37 , Lawrence DeBivort wrote:
    > >
    > > > international bullying in the form of
    > > > power-based relationships.
    > >
    > > You know, I have not been following this discussion, at all, so, this is
    > > only a comment upon this one thought.
    > >
    > > From what I know of history, the entire realm of human experience has
    > > always included inter-tribal bullying in the form of power-based
    > > relationships.
    > >
    > > As in that piece about chimps I forwarded, it is totally obvious that we
    > > are genetic and behavioral continuations of fierce and unforgiving and
    > > oftimes horrifically cruel primates.
    >
    >That you think this is obvious just goes to show the power of memes, in
    >this
    >case the humans-as-innately-violent meme, which provides an excuse for our
    >otherwise inexcusable behavior.
    >
    >
    This innate violent rationalization notion also crosses the is-ought barrier.

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