Sometimes I wonder if cladistic sociological analysis is a trap. Catnip for people whose pattern-recognition module is dialed-up too high..https://twitter.com/QuasLacrimas/status/821036853310660608 …
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Replying to @AngloRemnant
..Anchoring an interpretation of history to clades is like analyzing company performance by using only a series of balance sheets..
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Replying to @AngloRemnant
..Snapshots of performance that could be generated by an infinite permutation of actual events, but youre landing on only one explanation..
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Replying to @AngloRemnant
..Another pitfall is you'd need to assume the chosen clades are even the right data points, actually meaningful, not ex-post memes.
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Replying to @AngloRemnant
All of this is entirely possible. But if you do use clade, you want to be sophisticated about it. Also, I mainly had in mind-
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
Yes, & ultimately what else do we have to go on? I just occasionally wonder if we're meming ourselves more than we admit.
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Well remember, languages used cladistics first; maybe it's the zoological use which is memeabile
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