Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA00992 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 2 Aug 2000 18:04:20 +0100 Subject: RE: memes in minds, or memes in media? Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:00:59 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas est veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20000802170126.AAA21545@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 08/02/00 12:41, Aaron Lynch said this-
>I will note that if I have to do
>considerable extra work in order to use the word "meme," thereby
>replicating it into other people's vocabularies, it might be said that the
>word "meme" (at least figuratively, if not literally) is parasitizing me,
>my works, or my brain.
Yessir. The very act of starting to use a word, and then declining in
favor of another, for the most imperative reason that in order to use the
first word in any precise fashion, a preamble of definitional vastness
must be undertaken, happens to me often. 'Meme' is just such a word,
unless I use it in a flippant and offhand fashion, like, "hey, man,
that's a phat meme!".... I've failed to find any use for it outside of
faddish vagueness.
'Meme' is in newage (rhymes with sewage) vogue.
- Wade
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