Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA18167 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:49:13 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3102A6D1E1@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory Perception Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:23:24 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Filter-Info: UoS MailScan 0.1 [D 1] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
And why would soem Pakistani children think this Richard?
Perhaps because of their parents telling them of the US abandonment of
Pakistan at the end of the Cold War, when it no longer mattered to the US.
Ah, I know it's pointless talking to someone who won't listen...
Vincent
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> From: Richard Brodie
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> See the interviews with Pakistani schoolchildren on MSNBC.
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> At 03:19 PM 11/01/02 -0800, you wrote:
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> >
> >Please explain how the meme "the highest goal in life is to kill yourself
> in
> >an attack on Americans" is not anti-American.
> >
> Hi all
> On this touchy subject I would observe that it is not "the highest goal in
> life is to kill yourself in an attack on Americans" which is the meme. For
> me, martyrdom is the effect of the "going to heaven is good" meme.
> Jeremy
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