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Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Meme Central - Memes, Memetics, and Mind Virus Resource

i'm actually a little disappointed that the word rhymes with "dream." i liked the "me!me!" pronunciation i had adopted in my own little me!me! way. the subject is esoteric, i think...do i know the definition for esoteric? hang on, i'll check...

Merriam-Webster OnLine says:
Main Entry: es·o·ter·ic
Pronunciation: "e-s&-'ter-ik
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin esotericus, from Greek esOterikos, from esOterO, comparative of eisO, esO within, from eis into; akin to Greek en in -- more at IN
Date: circa 1660
1 a : designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone b : of or relating to knowledge that is restricted to a small group
2 a : limited to a small circle b : PRIVATE, CONFIDENTIAL
- es·o·ter·i·cal·ly /-i-k(&-)lE/ adverb

i want a better word than esoteric to describe this school of thought. the thesaurus Yields: RECONDITE, abstruse, acroamatic, deep, heavy, hermetic, occult, orphic, profound, secret

i think recondite fits. beyond the reach of the average intelligence

hell, i have supposedly above average intelligence, and the subject of memes is abstruse, acroamatic, deep, esoteric, heavy, hermetic, occult, orphic, profound, secret, or erudite, learned, scholarly; academic, pedantic; difficult, hard; dark, enigmatic, obscure; anagogic, cabalistic, mystic, mystical; cryptic, runic, sibylline, etc., to me.

it seems to fit one of the theories i've hatched since bekah died. spiritual evolution. at her funeral, the rabbi described bekah as "quite an evolved being," and i take that to mean civilized, cultured, vital, literate, aware. her death was violent, inexplicable, uncivilized, caused by a person whose actions on that night can be reasonably described as "inhuman," as in "monstrous," "depraved," "murderous."

apparently bekah's killer's lifestyle up to 07-19-01 was consistent with those actions, based on numerous reports passed through the grapevine and coming to my attention via a variety of channels. it seems that most of the people familiar with this person, when they learned of what happened, said, "so rambo finally killed someone." as far as i know, nobody who knew her was especially surprised. shocked, maybe, but not surprised.

i describe rambo as "unevolved," based on everything i have learned about her and the circumstances surrounding bekah's murder. nothing she has done since has changed that assessment. at every step of the process the woman has had the option to do the right thing. she has demurred, at every step.

i wondered how it could be that this person could be alive in the 21st century. [wonder the same about gw bush in fact] - i believe that i could not do what she did. i mean to keep driving after bekah's head shattered the windshield in front of her face...dragging a body down the street with her car...dumping it in the middle of the street like it was nothing. it was a human being! and she had to have known that.

my belief - that i am not capable of treating another human being so callously - was validated one day a few months after bekah died. driving down PCH at about 40 mph i suddenly realized that a dead animal was in the road just in front of my car. the poor thing had been run over so many times i couldn't say what it had been. i swerved to avoid it. just reflex. pure reflex.

rambo swerved to hit bekah. according to the police report and an interview on tv with a policeman the day after bekah died, she was on the wrong side of the street, speeding, without headlights, when she killed bekah. she drove away without leaving a skid mark and on to the road leading to her hilltop home, a winding 2 lane country road that she could not have safely circumnavigated without headlights and control of her vehicle.

she got home fine. then the stories multiply. did she tell her husband she thought she hit "someone or thing"? did she call her attorney? definitely she did go to bed and to a sound sleep. Her husband reportedly had to shake her awake even though multiple policemen were in the room and her dogs were barking loudly. she initially denied having been the driver of the car that killed bekah. then she denied knowing she had killed a person. at her deposition in the civil suit over one year later rambo swore that she had no idea she had hit a person until waking up with her room full of cops. but the DA told me that she had consulted her attorney long before the police caught up with her.

if she didn't think she had hurt or killed a person why would she have contacted her criminal attorney prior to being identified and arrested? at the police station she expressed dismay because of her car being wrecked, but never said a word or asked about bekah. nothing.

bekah's best friend just called and i need to call her back on the land phone. more about spiritual evolution later.
meme

- posted by barbara @ 10/15/2003 05:50:00 PM

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