Re: Selfish meme?

From: Joe Dees (joedees@addall.com)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 07:29:30 GMT

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    > Re: Selfish meme?Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 07:34:03 -0500
    > "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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    >Hi Jeremy Bradley -
    >
    >>In the longer term, maybe 150 years, the planet will not support humans.
    >>Does that not make our carelessness and corruption crimes against humanity?
    >
    >I don't, at all, disagree with this. (See Wilson's new Future of Life for
    >a wonderful compendium of support.) I was more disagreeing with the
    >'western' bias you gave ecological destruction. The world is littered, on
    >all fronts, with examples of man-made ecological disasters, many from
    >indigenous peoples, who, having ruined one island, have to move to
    >another. For every aborigine success, there are pairs of failures by
    >other native dwellers or colonial arrivers.
    >
    >>aberration in the human mythscape as all other early cultures were directed
    >>to exist in nature, not above it.
    >
    >Nature is often more powerful. And then, something makes it less so. Any
    >agricultural endeavor has no place in that mythscape, and that mythscape
    >was left behind, by all but a few tribes, long ago.
    >
    For just two examples to shatter the myth of the eco-balanced savage, chack out the histories of Easter Island and the Anasazi of the north american southwest.
    >
    >- Wade
    >
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