On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Reggie Bautista wrote: > On second thought perhaps those two things are really the same. If > different ego types are discussed in terms of memes (the "type a" meme, the > disgrutled engineer meme, also known as the Dilbert, etc.), then maybe > psychohistory is just memetics (if genetics is the study and manipulation of > genes, then memetics would be the study and manipulation of memes). Just a > thought.
I think that a meme, properly speaking, is a specific idea. A disgruntled engineer, it seems to me, would be personality type combined with some memes, perhaps, but not just a meme itself. Although it's certainly arguable that these days "disgruntled engineer" is almost a fashion statement. :-) Marvin Long Austin, Texas
