[UA] Autobiographical memes

[holycrow at mindspring.com]

>
>ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:
>> >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_.

>cough<  "Das Garten," >cough<

-G.

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