Re: state of memes

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 11:13:23 BST

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Subject: Re: state of memes
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:13:23 +0200
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Dace <edace@earthlink.net>
    To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 7:05 AM
    Subject: Re: state of memes

    > It wasn't just the Palestinians. What happened two weeks ago was much
    like
    > the climactic scene of The Wizard of Oz, when the Wicked Witch of the West
    > melts into a pool of water, and her servants rejoice at their sudden and
    > previously unthinkable liberation.

    Hi Dace,

    You are quit right here !
    Not only the Palestinians and the Mexicians rejoiced.
    Here in Belgium also a few days after the first shock the comments in news-
    papers and elsewhere changed their tune.
    Also the people in the street saw this coming and rejoiced, not in the
    way the few Palestinians did, but anyway.

    The most common factor for this fact was that the Americans needed a
    lesson in respectfullness and in modesty. But somehow, Bush and his
    administration don 't yet grasp it !
    And that is something what most people I talked with see as the most
    immediate danger for the future_ that the West will enforce its own view
    upon the world, once again....

    Best regards,

    Kenneth

    ( I am, because we are)

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