Re: MEMETICS: Humor (was The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

Dan Fabulich (dfab@cinenet.net)
Wed, 22 Jan 1997 19:34:34 -0800


Sunah.Caroline.Cherwin@pobox.com wrote:

> Well, humor generally (I would like to say 'always') encourages new
> juxtapositions and different perspectives. Is there a way for memes to be
> propagated in the absence of such phenomena?

In my experience, I've found that humor tends to cause people to laugh
at juxtapositions, but rarely to examine them in further detail.

-He who laughs last thinks slowest-
dAN