From: Bruce Howlett (brucehowlett@northnet.com.au)
Date: Sun 09 Mar 2003 - 23:18:54 GMT
Hi Joe.
I am personally sympathetic to your attitude. Having both Muslim friends and the opportunity recently to talk to Iraqi refugees living in Australia, I am aware of the humanitarian issues and problems. The sooner the world community sorts this out the better, and while we are at it there are some major humanitarian problems in Africa we need to fix. Unfortunately the Africans are not sitting on top of half the worlds oil supplies, so they will have to wait.
Having said that, these issues are not really the concern of this list. We too frequently indulge in the dialogue just to air our views on the world in general. Let's try to keep it to memetics.
Regards,
Bruce Howlett
----- Original Message -----
From: joedees@bellsouth.net
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: Memes For Peace
> At 08:32 AM 10/03/03 +1100, Bruce wrote:
> Well maybe. This could be a chicken and egg argument. Do you think
> that the producers and script writers deliberately sat down and
> decided to try to influence the rest of the world? Or did the biases
> and beliefs (memes) held by those people just flow through into the
> movie?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bruce Howlett
>
> For me Bruce, the memetic codification of culture enables perceptions
> of appropriacy within that culture. It is therefore not so much a
> situation of writers and producers plotting to dominate the world of
> thought as them doing what they do 'normally'. Though, that said, it
> is common knowledge that Washington called in the top producers and
> 'informed them' of how '9 11' was to be portrayed in movies.
>
Please reference this si-called 'common knowledge'. The anonymous
"they" say many things, most of them untrue.
>
>That is
> the 'engineering' part of memetic codification. Sorry all, that will
> have to suffice from me for now as I'm too busy to play right now
> (stop smiling Joe) Jeremy
>
I'll smile when the Iraqis are liberated and Saddam's fascist regime is
deposed.
>
> Jeremy Bradley - The Greens' Candidate in Oxley
> 3200 Oxley Hwy Wauchope 2446
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>
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