Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA00437 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:05:39 GMT User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.0 (1513) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:03:10 -0500 Subject: Re: DNA Culture .... Trivia? From: William Benzon <bbenzon@mindspring.com> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Message-ID: <B681F1EC.67C8%bbenzon@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745BB3@inchna.stir.ac.uk> Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
on 1/10/01 10:37 AM, Vincent Campbell at v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk wrote:
>>> Vincent:
> ... why does monotheism succeed so dramatically in
>> industrial societies?>>
>
> Maybe this has been done in the work suggested by William Benzon, I don't
> know, I'm not familiar with it.
>
> Vincent
>
And that's a major problem with you memeticists. You talk about things
where there is an existing literature -- such as the emergence of monotheism
-- but you don't bother read any of that literature. You assume that you
already know the truth -- that the memes did it -- and so there's no point
in reading anything that anyone else has done.
end of rant.
BB
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