From: M. E. Smith (mesmith@rocketmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 04 1999 - 11:12:55 MST
(In this post, I use the angle-bracket notation to
stand for memes.)
--- Lee March <cyberlee@earthlink.net> wrote:
> There is only god the meme.
Good point. I stipulate that there is only <God>.
Here is another reason your analogy with memes like
<war> is still not very good; there are actual wars.
However, I still think that the fact that people use
<God> proves that <God> is useful, like <absolute
zero>. Does it bother you when people say "absolute
zero"? How about "the average man"?
> Second most destructive cocept; communism.
<Communism> is second on the list, eh? Pretty
impressive for a meme that has had less than two
centuries to do its dirty work. If the Soviet Union
hadn't collapsed, it could have had a shot at #1! I'm
glad you've thought about it and it wasn't just an
off-the-cuff remark; it must be pretty hard to rank
these memes.
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