Since completing "Meme Machine" a couple months ago, I've been thinking about how Blackmore decided to organize her argument. Literally, the first half of the book deals with natural selection basics and meme-gene coevolution to setup the so-called "replicator power" of ideas. With my biology background, it admittedly got tedious.
I think by the end of her framework construction, I was too fatigued to continue to applications of the framework with significant attention. So, while I finish "Stranger in a Strange Land", start up "Rendezvous with Rama" (should be a short read) and continue "Guns, Germs and Steel", I'll try and reread some of her meme discussions.
I'm hoping this new "book blog" method will help my understanding, it seems to be working with Germs, Guns and Steel so far. I really need to jot down so stuff for "The River of Doubt" and "This is Your Brain on Music" soon!
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