Re: Witness Tells of Taliban Attack on Ancient Buddha Relics

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 07 2001 - 22:57:49 GMT

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    Hi Robin Faichney -

    >> Some people do, some people teach.
    >
    >Some people know when to shut up. Or to stop digging.

    Well, lots of people know lots of things, and lots of other people don't.

    I'm very much of the 'show them things' school, not the 'tell them
    things' school.

    But, I weren't pickin' at your sides, ever.

    Firing anti-aircraft weaponry at religious artifacts is very much the
    'show them things' school.

    Some things, to me, stand without commentary as units of information to
    be acted upon.

    So, be scientific- what is there about memetics and the study of it that
    would allow such tyranny- 'socio-political memetic engineering' in our
    present jargon- to be counter-acted?

    Why has the stupidity of bigotry been running rampant throughout the
    history of social culture, defended when challenged, and used for
    identity by tribe after tribe?

    - Wade

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