[UA] Autobiographical memes

[Mark Fender]

>On a related note, the founders of Scouts and the Boy's Brigade were at a
>Scout camp one day and they agreed that the point of Scouting basically was
>to create memtic replicates of Baden-Powell.

>  I've long argued that this is the purpose of biographies and
>autobiographies, and why I don't read them - they're attempts to
>replicate some or all of your personality into the host minds of your
>readers.  It's a low-tech version of the War of the Memes (c.f. John
>Barnes, _Kaleidescope Century_ and _Candle_).

Also, Neal Stephenson's _Snow Crash_.


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