Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id JAA26197 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:29:03 GMT Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 08:17:05 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Witness Tells of Taliban Attack on Ancient Buddha Relics Message-ID: <20010306081705.B540@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <200103051340.f25Denf16841@smtp.EUnet.yu> <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745CC3@inchna.stir.ac.uk> <20010305124656.A1186@reborntechnology.co.uk> <200103051340.f25Denf16841@smtp.EUnet.yu> <20010305184706.B523@reborntechnology.co.uk> <5.0.2.1.0.20010305202552.00a6d130@mail.clarityconnect.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010305202552.00a6d130@mail.clarityconnect.com>; from rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:40:25PM -0500 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:40:25PM -0500, Ray Recchia wrote:
> Two models of dealing with competition. 1) Allow direct competition and
> have a meme succeed because it survives an internal battle between memes,
> and 2) have the most ardent acceptors of the meme destroy all evidence of
> competitors and prevent exposure. These artifacts have existed for
> thousands of years and are an impressive testament to Buddhism. If you
> want to eliminate Buddhism in your country using strategy 2, destroying
> those artifacts would be a way to do it. Of course there is always that
> backlash problem. But the backlash won't last anywhere near the amount of
> time those artifacts did. Sounds fairly memetic to me.
I agree. What you say here is about memetics. But what Wade posted
wasn't, except in the trivial sense that everything cultural is by
definition memetic. There's a difference between examples of memes in
action, which absolutely everything on the internet and in the mass and
non-mass (?) media is, and things that are actually about memetics,
which your contribution is but Wade's wasn't. I say that examples
of memes in action must be considered off-topic here, unless they're
accompanied by an explicitly memetic commentary such as yours.
> I enjoy Wade's
> news posts and tend to save them.
Good for you.
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