RE: Memes and sexuality

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 13:01:19 BST

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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: Memes and sexuality
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    Thanks Diana,

    I missed that article, although I have a friend (who's a silent member of
    this list) who berates me for being such a fan of The X-Files that I think
    it's a documentary series! :-)

    I must sheepishly admit that when the series first began in 1994 I was a
    closet believer in UFOs, but I have since seen the error of my ways, and one
    of the reasons I became interested in memetics was because I'm interested in
    how stories that are more than likely completely untrue spread through a
    population, such as the infamous Roswell Incident (a key plot point in The
    X-Files "realism"). From a media perspective, I'm similarly interested in
    stories that spread through the news media regardless of their veracity (or
    significance for that matter).

    Vincent

    > ----------
    > From: Diana Stevenson
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 10:22 pm
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Re: Memes and sexuality
    >
    > Lise wrote:
    >
    > <I have a feeling we wouldn't get much else done if we didn't repress our
    > 'natural drives' to some extent>
    >
    > Do you mean that sexual repression arose because it allows more time and
    > energy to be used in spreading memes? Orwell in "1984" posited that
    > sexual
    > frustration makes people more fanatical about their memes, and many have
    > seen a link between celibacy and fanaticism in christian writings.
    >
    > Here's one for Vincent: last year Time Out magazine (London) ran an
    > article
    > on The X-Files with the caption "Mulder and Scully: searching for the
    > truth
    > as only the sexually frustrated can". A good example of responsible
    > journalism???:)
    >
    > Diana
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