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Dear Aaron,
> I should note that regardless of who is right, it only
> takes one person working up a sensational falsification or distortion to
> impose all the extra work of detailed readings onto people who want to know
> what someone actually said and whether an extremely damning criticism has
> any merit.
Few people are willing to make the effort. ;-) Rather, we tend to rely upon
authority or other things, such as the plausibility of the different
accounts.
Your comment has great relevance to the life of memes, and to the ubiquity
of negation as a memetic mutater. Even when a meme has hegemony, there is a
good chance of finding a niche for a contradictory meme.
Best regards,
Bill
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