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Well, its the alien visitors of course. You just don't remember, as they
wiped your conscious memory of all those abductions :-)
I have to admit to being a fan of The X-Files, and Dana Scully (played by
Gillian Anderson) has a fair amount ot do with that...
Vincent
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> From: Scott Chase
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> >From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
> >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> >Subject: memes- remember them?
> >Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:10:53 +0100
> >
> >Hi Everyone,
> >
> >Came across this piece on my travels over the weekend-
> >
> >Messina, L & O'Rangers, E (1998) 'Believing the Lie: Meme Theory and the
> >Conspiracy Virus in The X-Files', Diegesis, Winter, no.3, pp: 24-33
> >
> >It's a rather misplaced metaphorical usage of memetics to assess the
> spread
> >of the alien conspiracy idea in the series. Still, it's about memes
> which
> >is more than can be said about recent threads- interesting as they've
> been.
> >
> >I may become more of a lurker on the list over the next few weeks
> (hurrahs
> >from the gallery- well the cheap seats anyway), as I'm overladen at work
> >having become acting course director of a Master's degree.
> >
> >Having said this I'm slowly working on a piece intended for publication
> >built out of the research paper I gave a couple of months back on
> memetics
> >(which really impressed people on the list- I know this from the lack of
> a
> >single response to its posting! Ah well, I hope to pad it out a bit more
> >and
> >find something more substantive to say, although again I'll be aiming it
> at
> >the media studies community initially).
> >
> >On this, does anyone know anything about theories of crowd behaviour,
> >particularly early theories on this? A colleague mentioned something
> about
> >this in relation to my presentation, but has cleared off on sabbatical.
> >
> >
> The truth is "out there".
>
> There was a series which aired in the U.S. when I was a kid which I think
> was called "Project Blue Book", where there were investigations of
> "U.F.O."
> stuff.
>
> There's been an infiltration of alien intelligence talk into the
> creation-evolution debate as some people seem to think that the
> limitations
> of evolutionary theory and home grown abiogenesis imply that some alien(s)
>
> created Earthian life and sent it to Earth in a seeding probe from some
> distant planet. There are likely many variant strains of directed
> panspermy
> "out there", just as with any other mind bug. Some strains are more
> entertaining than others.
>
> I hardly watch the X-Files, but one season finale episode a couple years
> back caught my attention. Scully (if I got her named correct) was
> intrigued
> by something related to some alien spacecraft found on some African beach.
>
> There were panspermic implications if I recall correctly.
>
> Alien conspiracy ideas keep infiltrating the ideosphere. I wonder what
> seeds
> them.
>
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