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----- Original Message -----
From: Kenneth Van Oost <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: CRASH CONTAGION
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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> > With Phillips-like research, in which such views are rooted, the 100%
> > increase in people flying a plane into a building deliberately would be
> > proof of cause and effect, but I see no evidence of this. Paul
predicted
> > such copy-cat attempts pretty soon after the original attack, but
several
> > months on there has been this one case. How long does media coverage
> > resonate with audiences with contagious effect? In other words what is
> the
> > period in which such contagions remain powerful? Is it only on
immediate
> > exposure, does it seep into people to reemerge weeks, months, years
later
> or
> > what? There's no coherence to this kind of contagion idea to my mind.
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I do agree with Vincent here !
> I find it very odd that after such a long period of time, a yound lad got
> the
> idea to crash a plane into a building !
> On Belgium TV, already the views with contempt were spread, the boy
> was sick, he was insane, he got a low intelligence profile, he was
> desperate,
> that kind of nonsens.
>
> Like I said in an earlier post, it all can come down to childsplay. Even
the
> ' proof ' of being influenced by bin Laden, the suicide- note... like I
> said,
> we do anything do discharge the child from any responsibility.
> No the kid was not insane, he was under influence of bin Laden !
>
> In my mind, the real contaigon agent, is the fact that another plane
crashed
> into a building. The mere idea of fear transmitted itself throughtout the
> world.
> Intangibled with the constructions of what happened on the 9/ 11 the
patho-
> gens of fear spread. The captivating idea of crashing planes into
buildings
> is IMO not the contaigon that sweeped across the land.
>
> Read Stephen E Ross,
> http://www.annals.org/issues/v131n11/full/199912070-00019.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Kenneth
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