Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970618212457.006dc930@popmail.mcs.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:24:57 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Aaron Lynch <aaron@mcs.net>
Subject: Re: Masturbation sections in TC
In-Reply-To: <199706182343.TAA12321@global.dca.net>
>Aaron Lynch responding to TP/MC on 6/18/97:
>
>>I recently invited Bill Benzon to be specific about the "blinding" effects
>>of Dawkinsian memetics by explaining how it pertains to the memetics of
>>masturbation, a familiar topic and one which arises early in my book
>>THOUGHT CONTAGION.
>>
>>Any grasp of the bare bones thesis of this book requires reading at least
>>the whole first chapter, available online at
>>http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/tc1.html. An intelligent discussion of how the
>>book's thesis handles the proliferation of sex taboos such as those against
>>masturbation and also the proliferation of competing sexual liberation
>>memes (e.g., in separate eras) requires reading THE WHOLE BOOK. (Not too
>>much to ask, since the book is short and introductory in nature.)
>>
>>
>> --Aaron Lynch
Aaron Lynch responding to TP/MC:
This message was not my reply to your posting under the heading "Re:
Lynch's Memetic Theories about Masturbation (Long)." Long postings require
long replies, so you will have to be content to wait more than a few hours.
Others have written to me about the masturbation topic, and I would like to
waste as little time as possible re-iterating material that is in the book
but that not everyone has read.
[snip]
--Aaron Lynch
THOUGHT CONTAGION:
How Belief Spreads Through Society
The New Science of Memes
Basic Books. Info and free sample:
http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/thoughtcontagion.html
----Aaron Lynch
THOUGHT CONTAGION: How Belief Spreads Through Society The New Science of Memes Basic Books. Info and free sample: http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/thoughtcontagion.html
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