Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA05024 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 6 Oct 2001 20:59:21 +0100 From: "salice" <salice@gmx.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 21:53:55 +0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: What/Who selects memes? In-reply-to: <001101c14e9c$bce259e0$6ca0bed4@default> Message-Id: <E15pxYQ-0001yp-00@dryctnath.mmu.ac.uk> Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> IMO culture does not have any purpose than to be the approiate vehicle
> to propagate its specific memes.
Yes, but you have to be aware of the fact that memes affect people.
So if culture is a vehicle for propagating memes it's also a vehicle
to affect people's lives.
> The only purpose I see of any culture is to spread " cultural " memes, that
> are ideas, thoughts, values, moralistic considerations, ethics and
> aesthetics.
Yes, and this affects People.
Look at Third Reich "culture". Just some memes flowing around or Jews
being killed in concentration camps because of an idea?
> And in that way, cultures will, can and must differ, because any possible
> environmental difference between 2 or more changes the outcome of any
> meme....
Culture changes, not randomly, but the way it's human population
makes it too.
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