Platt, Woody and Y'all: I'm not familiar with book or its review, but I
did read about the "meme" concept about 5 or 6 years ago. A geeky
cyberian named Doug Rushkoff may have coined the word. In any case, he
described it as a feature of the internet, a new cultural force born in
cyber-space. He says a meme can get enough energy to enter the larger
media world and then the culture in general. I'm not conviced that
anything new is really going on. An age-old process has been excelerated
by technology, but it still the same, Word gets around. Ideas catch on.
That's how it always works. David B.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Platt Holden [SMTP:pholden5@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 8:16 PM
> To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Subject: Re: MD Memes and the MOQ
>
> Hi Woody:
>
> You wrote:
>
> > Platt, I read the NYTimes review of The Memes Machine, and I
> thought: "
> > hmmm... man, thank Pirsig for MoQ." Did you read any of the book
> > itself? Is this another L.R.Hubbard or one his clones that came up
> > with this? Just curious.
>
> No, I haven't read the book itself nor intend to. I'm sure the author
> is
> more legitimate than L.R. Hubbard, but obviously quite limited in
> scope
> compared to Pirsig. But then again, how many authors are writing a
> metaphysics these days?
>
> Regards,
> Platt
>
>
>
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