From: Jonathan Davis (jonathan.davis@lineone.net)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 04:11:14 MDT
Thank you very much for the information. Very very interesting links. It
was a Sunday Times (London) article by Murray that first introduced me to
the idea. It seems that the Sunday Times article was a reprint of this
original. I had forgotten where I read it!
Kind regards
Jonathan Davis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Wicks" <dwicks@pop400.gsfc.nasa.gov>
To: "Jonathan Davis" <jonathan.davis@lineone.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Upstream] Help with a memetic fragment
> Arnold Toynbee held at least the initial part of that theory to be
> true. More at:
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/ma/karlek/neodeism/nd16.html
>
> Charles Murray elaborated on Toynbee and completed the theory in the
> following article:
>
> http://www.mugu.com/pipermail/upstream-list/2001-February/001309.html
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dennis Wicks
>
> >At 06:48 PM 5/2/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> >"There is a sociological theory about the rise and fall of different
> >cultures. It says basically that when a society is on the rise, the
> >lower classes imitate the upper classes. When a society is declining,
> >the upper imitate the lower."
> >
> >http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=19474%40exodus.Eng.Sun.COM
> >
> >Does anyone know anything more about this 'theory'?
> >
> >Can anyone direct me to any resources on this?
> >
> >Thank you in advance for any help on this.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Jonathan
> >
> >
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