--Eva
List,
I called "By God" an oath intuitively, I am rather surprised and grateful
that Eva has provided documentation which supports this "off the cuff"
observation.
I also think that Eva has hit on an important point when she says that
"Blasphemy is a more complex meme" in that it relies "on the context...". I
affirm that a meme MUST rely on a context (which is surely a requirement of
an abstract object, or symbol--that it is a representation of content within
context--for that is how it must *encode* the objective quality of content
as a contextual, symbolic, representation).
So she might also agree that "By God" is not a meme if taken outside of a
context (or a viral form seeking a context). On the other hand, would she
agree that "By God" is an integral part of a meme *complex*...or that as the
thesis of art and the anti-thesis of originality, that it might represent a
meme in process of transition?
Brett
Brett Lane Robertson
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