Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA26960 (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 12:50:35 GMT Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:41:33 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Witness Tells of Taliban Attack on Ancient Buddha Relics Message-ID: <20010306124133.B1237@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745CC7@inchna.stir.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745CC7@inchna.stir.ac.uk>; from v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:40:30AM -0000 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:40:30AM -0000, Vincent Campbell wrote:
> I see your line of argument here Robin, and I agree we shouldn't get off
> track, but isn't there still a bone of contention as to what constitutes a
> meme in the first place, and thus perhaps people post situations/events
> looking for comments from others as to whether or not they count as
> candidates for memes. Surely the point here would be that the symbolic
> threat of these statues to the Taliban's draconian regime could also be
> regarded as memetic.
I don't see how anyone could regard that situation as non-memetic.
Absolutely everything cultural is memetic. That's why this list needs
to be restricted to what's explicitly memetic, or at least explicitly and
closely memetics-related.
> Either that or Wade was just on a wind-up mission for the pro-buddhists on
> the list...
Surely not!
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