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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 2:40 PM
Subject: RE: Cons and Facades/memetic engineering
> One of the interesting things is how (or why) things become taboos,
despite
> their prevalence in human behaviour.
>
> Homosexuality has gone, for example, from one extreme to the other in
terms
> of social acceptance (e.g. Ancient Spartan society), to taboo, to our
> current era of greater tolerance and acceptance. Incest was the preferred
> reproductive method of Egyptian pharohs, but is now a major taboo etc.
etc.
>
> Now, it seems to me, that the tolerance or condemnation of such behaviours
> at various times is probably memetic in nature.
>
<< Vincent, do you mean with " such behaviours at various times is probably
memetic in nature " that such behaviours vary along the changing tread of
human culture !? In that case, what is influencing what:- culture ><
behaviour !?
What kind of " effective memes " are infecting the human mind to tolerate
or to condemn such behaviours, not in the least to take part into
incest...!?
Or is it possible that tolerance or condemnation are memetical engineered !?
That is, in our society the equality-principle is held high, is it then not
possible
that media/ propagande etc are generating the judgment which behaviour is
tolerated or condemned !? >>
regards,
Kenneth
(I am, because we are) once more
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