RE: Witness Tells of Taliban Attack on Ancient Buddha Relics

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 05 2001 - 20:33:35 GMT

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    >what is specifically memetic about this issue? Why did Wade post that message?

    Maybe I'm lost, but what the hell is specifically non-memetic about it?

    Making pronouncements about icons is not only decidedly cultural, but
    using force to dismiss ideas and religions is absolutely memetic- it is
    memetic engineering brought to its brutal and inevitable conclusion-
    ensuring the presence of only one mode of thought.

    Since when ain't tyranny memetic?

    - Wade

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