At Mon, 8 Feb 1999 06:27:08 -0800, you wrote:
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>Sounds like a good concept. Should I see the movie?
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>Richard
I highly recommend it. It is a much sharper media critique than Natural Born Killers. Could others please suggest memetically savvy movies? Perhaps we can compile a list.
>Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
>Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
>Free newsletter! Visit Meme Central at
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: joe dees [mailto:joedees@bellsouth.net]
>Sent: Sunday, February 7, 1999 7:43 PM
>To: Richard Brodie
>Subject: Re:RE: virus: from the Skeptic's newsletter..
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>At Sun, 7 Feb 1999 18:45:22 -0800, you wrote:
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>>No, David, there are times for a What-The-Heck attitude and there are times
>>to insist that things matter. I do my best to point my finger in a forward
>>direction.
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>A finger points to the moon. Ooooooh! Shades of R. D. Laing's "Knots."
>Remember the movie S.F.W.? The first memetic gospel (prompted by a media
>terrorist group) was "So Fucking What?"; the second, shouted by a lone
>gunwoman, was "Everything Matters!" Both were wildly popular with the hoi
>polloi multitudes (no, not the scarfers of hawaiian poi pudding;~). Even
>though the proponent of the second tried to assassinate the proponent of the
>first, they both came to the understanding that they were, underneath the
>correlative oppositions of their assertions, identical to each other, and so
>were their slogans (on the metalevel of their absolute and gospel/dogma
>form).
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>>Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
>>Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
>>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
>>Free newsletter! Visit Meme Central at
>>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
>>Of David McFadzean
>>Sent: Sunday, February 7, 1999 6:33 PM
>>To: virus@lucifer.com
>>Subject: Re: virus: from the Skeptic's newsletter.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Richard Brodie <richard@brodietech.com>
>>To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
>>Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 6:08 PM
>>Subject: RE: virus: from the Skeptic's newsletter.
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>>>No thanks. I'm here to aid people's growth, not deter it.
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>>Psst, Richard. Your dogma is showing.
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>Joe E. Dees
>Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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