Re: virus: The One or the Many? (was: META)

Sodom (sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:30:52 -0400


Wade T.Smith wrote:

> >In my first post I was trying
> >to decide if it would be better to study some kind of behavior that
> >*matters* as opposed to studying something so inconsequential.
> >
> >I HATE JUNK SCIENCE. I see too many people try to study complex
> things
> >without controls or elimination of variables. It just seemed to me
> that
> >how this fad developed and persists in our culture might be
> >interesting.
>
> Ouch.
>
> 1. Streaking _matters_? Or are you saying that studying the
> inconsequential is OK?
>
> 2. A fad is not a meme.
>
> 3. People have been streaking, in one form or another, for thousands
> of
> years.
>
> ********************************
> Wade T. Smith
> wade_smith@harvard.edu
> morbius@channel1.com
> morbius@cyberwarped.com
> ********************************

In fact, we were all streakers at one point, then society wrecked it
for the rest of us fun loving nudists!

Sodom