Re: To Grant - a man of many assumptions

From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@cogeco.ca)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 17:51:55 GMT

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From: Keith Henson <hkhenson@cogeco.ca>
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    At 07:27 AM 11/01/02 -0800, you wrote:
    >Dear Sphinx,
    >
    >I think you are leaping to a conclusion here. I only mentioned the field
    >of anthropology and what I think anthropologists in general may be doing
    >because they don't take memes into consideration.

    Try "cloak anthropology memetics" in Google. and here is the course
    outline for a graduate anthropology course that is largely about memetics.

    http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/fnsm/geog/ggebe/culture%20and%20ev%20seminar%20syl.html

    snip

    >Richard Brodie, for instance, has invested a great deal of time, energy
    >and money in that theory and has even started building a business empire
    >based on it. I understand he even quit a job with Microsoft in order to
    >pursue it.

    I think the proper word is "retired."

    Keith Henson

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