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Re:Memes are a myth by _rpd on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @04:19PM (#9541683)
More irony: the author is attempting to proliferate the meme that "memes are a myth" - presumably to defend some sacred belief system that memetic analysis undermines.
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Re:Memes are a myth by bikamonki on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @11:49PM (#9543345)
Memetic analysis would not undermine it, it would explain it ;) But I guess explanation kills the magic. In any case, I agree with you, 'deniers' of memetics tend to be more spiritual/religious. Again, memetics would explain the denial as well: making/breaking neural patterns is no easy task.
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Re:Memes are a myth by _rpd on Thursday May 14, 2015 @09:42AM (#9545082)
> I guess explanation kills the magic.

Once belief systems are understood as evolving memetic complexes that compete for niches in the ecology of the noosphere - well, it does tend to unweave the rainbow.

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