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Vincent Campbell wrote:
> Personally, I'd urge caution over incorporating memetics into a PhD thesis,
> though. It's not that the theory isn't potentially interesting, or that
> research shouldn't be done, but there's a lot at stake there to risk
> personally for you, on a theory that has major points of disagreement even
> amongst the most committted proponents- spend any time at all on this list,
> and you'll see this very clearly.
I came to this list to see if memetics had anything to offer mine (selective
collective delusion in law) and have come to the conclusion it doesn't. Still,
there's a void in language to describe the things I study. The language of
mythology will be adequate, if unsatisfactory.
Thanks Jess and Chris for your postings, they're really interesting.
Douglas
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