From: Alan Patrick (a.patrick@btinternet.com)
Date: Tue 19 Jul 2005 - 20:46:04 GMT
> I'm not convinced that it's a matter of being parasitic - well only in the
> sense that you can't have an objecting-to-Harry-Potter meme-set without
> having Harry Potter in the first place.
I think I buy your overall explanation here, though I am becoming
increasingly intrigued with the idea of memetic parasitism, and maybe
symbiotic memes. I don't know of any detailed work in this area, but by
empirical observation it seems that religion and politics are very
susceptible.
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