Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id VAA18678 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:22:11 GMT From: <joedees@bellsouth.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:25:37 -0600 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution Message-ID: <3A801771.1430.3FD304F@localhost> In-reply-to: <20010206203140.B1517@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <3A7FDE5C.13529.31E2DC0@localhost>; from joedees@bellsouth.net on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:22:04AM -0600 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 6 Feb 2001, at 20:31, Robin Faichney wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:22:04AM -0600, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> > On 6 Feb 2001, at 16:02, Robin Faichney wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 06,
> 2001 at 09:11:30AM -0500, Wade T.Smith wrote: > > > On 02/06/01 08:57,
> joedees@bellsouth.net said this- > > > > > > >It shows that if one
> perseveres, one can change one's own mind in > > > >desired directions
> not just in the short term, but also in the long > > > > term, or
> what's a college education for? > > > > > > And this, indeed, is
> freedom. > > > > > > (I think someone was talking about freedom....) >
> > > > > > But, look at the social substrate required for this freedom.
> > > > > > > How rare it is, and has ever been. > > > > Are you saying
> only college graduates are free??? > > > Are you saying that not only
> they, but also kings and dot-com > zillionaires, possess no (real
> rather than illusory) freedom at all?
>
> If you'd take the trouble to read with reasonable care and then think
> about what I write, you'd know I'd never say that.
>
> So I guess it's hopeless... :-(
>
If you're saying that we all enjoy freedom and suffer constraint,but
in differing degrees, that works.
> --
> Robin Faichney
> robin@reborntechnology.co.uk
>
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