Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA13678 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:23:26 +0100 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:17:25 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science Message-ID: <20010419101725.B1105@ii01.org> References: <F333wSimD3JkUwWpSWe0000c12c@hotmail.com> <B703B49D.8B3F%bbenzon@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <B703B49D.8B3F%bbenzon@mindspring.com>; from bbenzon@mindspring.com on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:16:14PM -0400 From: Robin Faichney <robin@ii01.org> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:16:14PM -0400, William Benzon wrote:
> on 4/18/01 6:09 PM, Scott Chase at ecphoric@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> >>> (BTW, nice crack about religion...)
> >>
> >> Thank you. I consider religion one of the most dangerous and insidious meme
> >> systems.
> >>
> > Religion is typically about following after entities which possibly don't
> > even exist. Memetics could be in the same ballpark, but I wonder if this
> > means memetics too is dangerous and insiduous.
>
> Of course it is. Like creationism, it distracts otherwise intelligent
> people from thinking in serious and useful ways.
And Bill's here to save us! :-)
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