Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA10640 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 9 Oct 2001 14:11:27 +0100 Subject: RE: Memes inside brain Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:06:22 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20011009130628.AAA9996@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 10/09/01 08:47, Ryan, Angela said this-
>Hypothesis: Is it possible that the advent of written inscription, the
>dissociation of text generation and text transmission though in a linked
>way, was what made what we now call memetics happen - or from another point
>of view, become visible?
A startlingly wonderful question, and one which evokes also that 'loss of
innocence' so often proposed in the romantic traditions as we
transitioned into the 'civilized' human and lost so much of our
connection to nature. This babelian disjunctive transliteration of music,
dance, and song into recorded materials is also a loss of communal
artistic expression, perhaps becoming diffusely sorted into the
ceremonies and distortions of the priest class, who demanded obedience to
myth, and not play.
- Wade
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