Re: Gender bias for memes

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 20:26:57 BST

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    Joe, fair enough !!

    But, I do have one remark ! Theory is allright, and should the beginning of
    the search into memetics. The way I try to " theorise " some aspects is from
    practice examples.

    Regards,

    Kenneth
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Joe E. Dees <joedees@bellsouth.net>
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    Subject: Re: Gender bias for memes

    > From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
    > To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    > Subject: Re: Gender bias for memes
    > Date sent: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:03:01 +0200
    > Send reply to: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >
    > >
    > > ----- Original Message -----
    > > From: Joe E. Dees <joedees@bellsouth.net>
    > > To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    > > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 2:34 AM
    > > Subject: Re: Gender bias for memes
    > >
    > >
    > > > He has discussed in too many words, while saying little if anything,
    > > > for quite some time now. The cascading concatenation of fuzz
    > > > inundating this list has caused the more serious among us to say
    > > > little, and none of them address Chris. They recognize a memetic
    > > > infection when they see it. Only the blissfully oblivious newbies are
    > > > embracing his word salad.
    > >
    > > Come Joe, you can do better than that !! The more serious !? What do
    you
    > > think I am, it is not that I adress myself to Chris that I am a kind of
    > > fool.
    > > Chris representation was something I did not know, that is the idea re
    left/
    > > right etc is a main interest of mine, Chris took it trough another
    angle...
    > > So what if I do believe him or not !? Memetic infection !? So what,
    what
    > > are
    > > you afraid of, that your little pretty mind would be infected by some
    memes
    > > you don 't like !? So what !? Stay out of the conversation like you did.
    > > The moment you intered the discussion between Chris and me, what reason
    > > did you have, you and the ' serious ones ' !?
    > > To make an end at the joke !? Well you did it !! Thank you very much !
    > > Is that now memetics !? I did say it before, if you don 't believe
    somebody
    > > 's
    > > word salad, challenge him, that is the purpose of this list, not to
    employ
    > > your
    > > own fine ideas...
    > > And so what that I am newbie, what 's got that to do with it !!
    > > And keeping a ' cordon sanitaire ' ,treaten a fellow member as an
    outcast,
    > > ' none of then adressed to him... ' !?
    > > So what, start up another tread, it is easy...
    > > So, I assume that all members has seen it coming then !! Fine, another
    > > lesson learned, a hard one, but I let this rest now, it is over.
    > > I 'll go back to the subject which I originally started, with your help
    or
    > > not,
    > > I will continue to write to Chris.
    > > If that should however undermine mine credibility, well so be it !
    > > I have mine interest, you got yours.
    > >
    > >
    > > > Is racial memetic bias next?
    > >
    > > Why not, memetics is everyone 's game !!
    > >
    > > > > Regards,
    > > > >
    > > > > Kenneth
    > > > >
    > > > > (I am, because we are) disappointed
    > > > >
    > I have understood the purpose of this list as one of studying
    > memesis in general, not the proselytization of memesets to which
    > one is particularly attached. People who cannot get beyond their
    > particular memes to consider memetics in general, are examples
    > of memetics in action, but are not themselves pursuing memetics
    > itself - just propagating their particular memes (something which
    > can be found on any fundamentalist list of any religious stripe).
    > We have generally here attempted to converse at a higher level of
    > abstraction and generality; talking ABOUT meme and memeset
    > spread in general, not spreading particular memes ourselves.
    > Theory - not practice.
    > > >
    > > >
    > > >
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    > > >
    > >
    > >
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