RE: memes- remember them?

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 09:59:42 BST

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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: memes- remember them?
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    Calling von Daniken a fraud might lead to legal action, if he saw it. Of
    course, he is quite wrong about the Nazca lines and wot not.

    Vincent

    > ----------
    > From: Kenneth Van Oost
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 8:02 pm
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Re: memes- remember them?
    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: Scott Chase <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
    > To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 7:43 PM
    > Subject: RE: memes- remember them?
    >
    > > >
    > > >Well, its the alien visitors of course. You just don't remember, as
    > they
    > > >wiped your conscious memory of all those abductions :-)
    >
    > >> "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.
    >
    > << I believe this was by Von Däniken, but he was a fraud !!
    > 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...
    >
    > << I am of course too late with this, but if you had read my posts to
    > Douglas Brooker about the problems in my homecountry, Belgium, you
    > would conclure that conspiracy theories are well and well alive.
    > It is just a kind of nationhood I think !!
    >
    > best,
    >
    > Kenneth
    >
    > ( I am, because we are)
    >
    >
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