From: Alan Patrick (a.patrick@btinternet.com)
Date: Tue 19 Jul 2005 - 06:58:16 GMT
On another board we were talking about why Harry Potter has raised the ire
of religous fundamentalists, whereas Philip Pullman's kids series, which is
far more anti religion etc, has not. View was that perhaps the anti Potter
thing is a memetic parasite, the Potter mindspace being larger and thus
better to colonise. (Of course, as Pullman is for older kids it just may be
that the moralists find it harder to understand.....)
Any views on the lifestyles of Memetic parasites....for eg are there
differences between species, say between fad parasites and those leeched to
longer term memes?
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