Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id VAA19843 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 13 Dec 2001 21:10:47 GMT Message-ID: <001901c1841a$c8c2a4a0$aa02bed4@default> From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> References: <200112131218.fBDCIr116706@sherri.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: Definition please Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:11:16 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Wade, you lost me here ! What is a SUV !?
Please !
Kenneth
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From: Wade T. Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: Memetics Discussion List <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: Definition please
Hi Kenneth Van Oost -
>Our social/ cultural and religious behaviors make sex far more compli-
>cated than it should be ( for propagation sake that is).
I'm sure a rapist feels the same way, which is perhaps the core statement
that that infamous book that came out a few months ago generated so much
controversy over.
>it makes you wonder if evolution is so blind to the future
>as we think she is.
Mate selection _seems_ not to be blind to the future, but, it's also
largely a function of responses and behaviors that were selected for, not
designed.
Like the good cliché says, put it to a committee to design, and you'll
get a camel (or an SUV) where a horse (or a well-maintained society)
would serve better.
Yes, I do see the SUV as the most blatant and glaring augury of
dissolution and disease in the social fabric....
;-)
- Wade
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