On 10/25/06, Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm having a hard time seeing opposition to the war as a meme. Book after book, article after article have been written recounting factual bases for opposition to it. Support for the war is much sooner a meme, i.e., simply a belief, in this case countervailed by opposition based in reality.
No need to take "meme" too seriously. In my message it's just an abbreviation for "cultural phenomenon." There is, moreover, no reason whatever to assume that a meme has no factual basis. Thus, for example, both Intelligent Design and the Theory of Evolution are memes. The factual foundation for the latter is much, much stronger.
John
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