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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (36541)3/3/1999 9:55:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) of 67261
 
I have read only a little (in The New York review of Books) about memes, and I am afraid that I just don't take them as seriously as you do. Certainly you are correct that all things are formed by "encoded information" (what Aristotle called the formal cause). By no one calls the eyeball a self- subsisting organism, for example, because it is of necessity part of the body, or dies. Nor does anyone confuse a blueprint with a building. Besides, the whole reason for postulating memes was to attempt an evolutionary account of culturally viable ideas, and I think that that is an essentially flawed way of treating the propagation and development of ideas.
As for Bennett: I don't know about the cold turkey business, but all of us have convictions, even those who profess to be tolerant are favoring a set of values and way of looking at the world. I don't quite see why Bennett is so bad for trying to propagate his views. Isn't that part of the evolutionary process of memes?
About Falwell: I really think you misjudge his personality, nor do I think you are right in claiming that he is given to threats. But the main thing is that if God exists, it is at least plausible that He has revealed Himself in Scripture. For centuries, people have believed in this, and propagated it. Falwell didn't make all of this up himself.
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