> Date sent: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 22:18:38 -0600
> From: Nathaniel Hall <natehall@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus: Random thoughts & more poor analogies!
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> > Richard Brodie wrote:
> >
> > > Academics are the end result of memetic inbreeding.
> > I like it! I like it!
> > Nate Hall
>
> One could just as well argue that they possess the fittest memes
> from a Darwinian standpoint; those that have survived the strongest,
> most frequent and most varied challenges (provided the academic is
> committed to winnowing deeply the haystacks from the broadest
> fields in which s/he feels truth needles might be found, using those
> already uncovered as compasses to divine the directions to further
> discoveries (is rational romanticism a good meme?)
Or is it romantic rationalism?