RE: memes- remember them?

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 18:43:23 BST

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From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
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Subject: RE: memes- remember them?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:43:23 -0400
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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: RE: memes- remember them?
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:45:47 +0100
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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'm now compelled to wear a tin foil hat, so they can't poke and prod my
mind from "out there".
>
>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...
>
>
"Day the Earth Stood Still" and "War of the Worlds" still leave "X-Files" in
the dust. There has been no shortage of alien movies. I even recall a
pseudo-documentary type movie called "Chariots of the Gods" which I saw when
I was very young. The ultimate may have een "Close Encounters of the Third
Kind", though "Indepedence Day" showed a renewed interest in this sort of
stuff recently.

Conspiracy theories have proliferated into all kinds of subject areas.
Biological warfare and human crafted infectious agents fit into several
conspiracy theories. Didn't "Outbreak" exploit this avenue a little? Does
memetics need a Dustin Hoffmann type to investigate a possible memetic
epidemic leading to collective mindbrain meltdowns? Yeah, definitely...
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