Message-Id: <199904131912.PAA15855@smtp4.mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:27:05 -0400
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: bbenzon@mindspring.com (Bill Benzon)
Subject: Re: reality and other memes
At 7:19 PM 4/13/99 +0200, Mario Vaneechoutte wrote:
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>Jake, I've made this remark for myself many times: whoever writes a book, on
>whatever subject, of whatever quality, all of sudden is some NAME. Very
>interesting subject for memeticists.You are absolutely right: the more big
>names
>behind something, the more cautious and critical one should be.
But of course those pesky conspiratorial memes and their complexes want to
infect the minds of NAME people so that when those people publish their
books, the memes will have more opportunity to infect other hosts. That's
certainly why Dennett was targeted, as he had a considerable reputation
before he came out for memetics.
And poor Dennett actually things he believes in memes when all that has
happened is that the meme meme successfully infected him and brought along
a whole mess of other memes to keep him confused.
Gotta' hand it to the meme meme. It's a clever little dude.
BB
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>(For clarity: I am not making specific comments on any book here).
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