X-Message-Number: 28473
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:31:24 -0600
From: "Anthony ." <>
Subject: question for "memeticians"

The best "memes" are those that survive.

Let's suppose then, that a hyper-disease travels around our globalised
world and kills 90% of people. The rest linger on in the toxic
wasteland as civilisation falls apart. Within a few generations, the
situation is so desperate, that people are living as if it were the
stone age. The highest tech that is used are flint tools. No-one
understands, or knows what to do with, the ruins of civilisation.

Doesn't this mean that the "best" memes would be those that
transmitted stone tool creation and use?

Anthony

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