Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id BAA12028 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:18:37 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.65.80.215] From: "Sphinx 111" <sphinx111@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: To Grant - a man of many assumptions Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 03:14:06 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F83IA3NKBykE1qZ4eA10001f503@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Jan 2002 01:14:07.0158 (UTC) FILETIME=[6EA63560:01C19B06] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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>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. Nowhere in my post did I
>refer to you personally.
Grant, I considered that when you used the word "you", you may have meant
plural and not singular. But, then, to give you the benefit of the doubt, I
thought, surely, you cannot be making such an assumption about an entire
discipline.
>
>Perhaps the general attitude in scientific circles toward the subject of
>memes has made you a little sensitive.
What makes me a "little sensitive" is when people make assumptions without
bothering to verify if there is anything substantive to the assumption
before carrying on from that base.
>I suspect that's especially true when I attack the "selfish meme" theory.
>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'm sure that must affect his and other people's attitudes toward a
>rougue theory that attacks what he has so much invested in.
What you are failing to see here Grant, is that you made an assumption about
me. When called on for that behavior you shifted your position and then
claimed it was directed at the field of anthropology. This only discredits
yourself even more. You then, turn around and proceed to make a set of
assumptions regarding Richard Brodie - the very same behavior I called into
question initially with respect to your dialogue with me.
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