RE: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory Perception

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 14:23:24 GMT

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    From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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    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

    > ----------
    > From: Richard Brodie
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 5:42 AM
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: RE: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory Perception
    >
    > See the interviews with Pakistani schoolchildren on MSNBC.
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
    > Of Jeremy Bradley
    > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 9:04 PM
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: RE: Knowledge, Memes and Sensory Perception
    >
    >
    > At 03:19 PM 11/01/02 -0800, you wrote:
    >
    > >
    > >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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