Re: virus: How did we get here

Dave Pape (davepape@dial.pipex.com)
Sun, 9 Feb 1997 21:20:38 GMT


At 21:20 07/02/97 -0800, Tad wrote:
>Jake (who *never* complains about anyone elses spelling mistakes. :)
>asques:
>
>>P.S. I stumbled on memetics after researching political theory. How did
>>you all get intrested?
>
>I was searching the Net for Richard Dawkins (my hero) and somehow got linked
>to the Church of Virus.

Hah!

No wonder you aren't committed to the Church's doctrine. I saw you stealing
from the collection plate.

I came here because I thought I'd invented the concept of Group Mind, then
fell out of love with it, started thinking about ideas interacting on a
bigger-than-one-skull level WITHOUT necessarily being part of a Group Mind,
then heard about memes and did an Alta Vista search for +"Mailing List" +meme.

You poor bastards.

Dave Pape
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