From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Mon 09 Jun 2003 - 22:02:38 GMT
Dace wrote:
<<Thanks for the correction. Nonetheless, memetics has itself become a
virulent meme according to which culture can be reduced to self-replicating
particles without regard to human agency. This is certainly the view
espoused by Blackmore, who refers to humans as nothing more than "meme
machines.">>
An aerial view of the spectators exiting a football stadium after the final
gun shows a very predictable pattern of the crowds moving out. Yet each of
those individuals has human agency.
The two points of view are not incompatible.
Richard Brodie
www.memecentral.com
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