From: "Chris Lofting" <ddiamond@ozemail.com.au>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Whales amongst us
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:56:25 +1000
In-Reply-To: <19990930031942.AAA21320@camail2.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.122]>
Hi Wade,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Wade T.Smith
> Sent: Thursday, 30 September 1999 1:16
> To: Memetics Discussion List
> Subject: RE: Whales amongst us
>
>
> >What exactly is your perspective on memetics Wade?
>
> Truthfully, I'm ready to dismiss it totally.
>
> I came at it from an aesthetics perspective, in an interested/seeker sort
> of way, in a wonder at why we are what we are sort of way.
>
> And it ain't working for me, and I've kept working at trying to see it.
>
cool.thanks Wade, gives me better understanding of your comments. Would you
agree that you re sitting (speaking metaphorically) in an arms-folded,
leaning back into the chair position? reactive?
Do you think that your coming to memetics was on an identity seeking path, a
sensation seeking path, a problem solving path or a security seeking path?
> Truthfully, I think those Ceta people are full of crap- another
> cogno-intellectual correlational sophocracy, like astrology or
> phrenology. I think they're deluding themselves totally. Newage (rhymes
> with sewage) woo-woo fruitcakes.
>
> So, yeah, I guess I don't understand what these people are saying.
>
fair enough.
best,
Chris.
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