From: Diego Remus (diego_remus@yahoo.com.br)
Date: Mon 26 Jan 2004 - 11:59:27 GMT
I think that drug addiction is a one-and-only human phenomen, maybe the most edgy cultural pattern. (I'm not taking into account the variations of the occurances and patterns).
For that, I wouldn't get bust calling drug addiction a meme (but, of course, everything cultural is related to memes). But, as much as a meme is a cataytcic indexical, drug addiction is also a catalyctic indexical. An to me it seems that drug addiction as a cataclytic indexical leads to considering memes as catalyctic indexicals (drug addiction is before memes are). This was considered when I wrote that I had thought of memes as catalyctic before.
Tha't's because (I know through my consulted expertise, research and experience) the drug addiction process catalyses memetical, it goes memetical. That's reasonably plausible when it comes to analyse the "drug culture" complete with its own expertise, from sci-fi to edge-sci to psychedelism.
Have you read about that?
But I'm not talking about the way the expression "drug addiction" is a catalyctic indexical, I'm talking about how drug addiction catalyses culture - so, then, does it catalyse culture? I think that psychedelics and psychedelism is much catalysm. The whole emotional experience (especially strong ones, such as imprinting moments) is catalyctic (indexical).
Diego
Ray Recchia <rrecchia@frontiernet.net> wrote:
I'm off for a week to attend a judicial conference on setting up special
drug courts that focus on treatment instead of incarceration.
My question is for the lot of you is: if drug addiction is a meme, are
there any insights that a memetic perspective can suggest on how to limit
it's spread? A related question: how is this complicated by the
involuntary nature of addiction itself?
Raymond O. Recchia, Esq.
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