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"Joe E. Dees" wrote:
> The meme for proselytization as the best thing one can do for both others and oneself is a component which is found in most religious and political memeplexes. It depends for its own survival and reproduction upon a memeplex, from which it gets the substance of what it proselytizes, to which it
> may remoralike attach itself, to give its shark memeplex replicative teeth, yet is not constrained to lock into any particulkar memeplex key. perhaps we should consider the model of components within systems; memes are those components which cannot be broken down into further components without
> destroying their componential(?) integrity, but many different memes may nestle into many differing memeplexes, although all memes will not fit into all memeplexes. Some components are interchangeable between and within memetic systems; justt not universally.
drifting into physicality...time to get out the butterfly nets
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