From: "Chris Lofting" <ddiamond@ozemail.com.au>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Defection Rates and Classes (was Parody of Science)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:16:23 +1000
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From: Gatherer, D. (Derek) <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl>
To: 'memetics@mmu.ac.uk' <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Date: Monday, 16 August 1999 9:15
Subject: RE: Defection Rates and Classes (was Parody of Science)
>Anyway, the upshot of running my Perl script is that the relative size of
>the professional classes stays the same, but those professional classes
>within a few generations are composed genetically of the descendents of new
>money.
>
>So, culturally low reproduction is stable, but it is a genetic disaster for
>those who adopt it.
>
>So why do they adopt it?
>
the use of value -- an illusion as far as 'out there' is concerned where our
values become our context; and so we 'die' for our beliefs....
Chris.
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