From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: memes and dancing
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 19:01:15 -0800
In-Reply-To: <19991223014251.AAA27474@camail2.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.135]>
<<Standing outside the box, I see no need to explain culture as anything
more than behavioral adaptation. Birdsong, if you will, taken to the
complex arena humans have available.
Such is where, I think, E. O. Wilson and others are going with this.
Memetics, so far, to me, just looks like a re-definitional dance, and
while it may tone a few good muscles, I don't think it is a required
exercise.>>
Marketing directors of Internet companies are making their stockholders
billions of dollars by using memetics. "Viral marketing" -- deliberately
engineering self-replicating word-of-mouth advertising -- is creating huge
customer bases for new companies at low cost with earth-shattering
effectiveness. See http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/mu0033.htm for my
recent Meme Update on the subject.
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie
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