Message-Id: <199706141421.KAA05538@brickbat8.mindspring.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 10:25:18 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: bbenzon@mindspring.com (Bill Benzon)
Subject: Re: Memes and High Culture
Mark Mills says,
>
>I doubt that memetics will ever replace intellectual historians.
But I think someone should take a run at it.
>
>Memetics will change the vocabulary of history and the sense of historical
>process,
I sure hope so. Or at any rate, I hope the study of cultural evolution
will. I'm not so hopefull about memetics, certainly not virus-based
memetics.
>but not the message. Knowledge of the past makes a difference.
>
What message? Is history talking to us?
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