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>In whatever it is that I've been doing, I've been preferring to grapple
>with
>"memetics" sort of issues at the surface. Recently, I watched an episode of
>a fan club show (IIRC it was on VH1) which looks at the ways various
>popular
>bands have impacted the lives of their fans. One episode was on the band
>"No
>Doubt". I happen to like their music and their lead vocalist with pink
>hair,
>but the hardcore "No Doubt" fans take it to the limit, some of them
>coloring
>their hair pink and doing other things that seem to stem from their
>affection for the band. If you were to look at how fans imitate bands or
>how
>other rival bands in the same musical niche emulate the more popular and
>successful bands, would trying to figure out how the underpinnings of these
>phenomena are encoded in the brain add anything to ones knowledge? That
>practice would seem a tad superfluous to me. How would knowing how a
>tendency to dye ones hair to match that of a rock music superstar or even
>put on face paint to imitate a member of KISS be possible or even add
>anything to knowledge of the phenomenon(a) if possible?
>
>
I forgot to add the qualifier about the tendencies being related to encoding
in the brain in this last sentence. I can't blame that omission on the
batteries in my keyboard :-(
(snip rest of my psychobabbling)
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