RE: new line: what's the point?

From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2000 - 16:05:48 GMT

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From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
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Subject: RE: new line: what's the point?
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 08:05:48 -0800
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    Joe wrote:

    >Most memes,
    >and especially successfully selected ones, are transmitted and
    >attended to by choice, because to choose to transmit and/or
    >receive them is believed to hold some positive value for the
    >transmitter/receiver, or to choose to forbear from such memetic
    >transmission/reception is believed to hold some negative value for
    >the transmitter/receiver, or both.

    I assume you are not necessarily ruling out "unconscious choice" when you
    make this statement. In my judgment the vast majority of memes are selected
    unconsciously. For instance, repetition of broadcast information (such as
    advertising slogans and TV serials) tends to be retained and sometimes
    passed on. If only we all chose the memes we transmitted consciously! (see
    http://www.memecentral.com/level3.htm for an unscientific mythology around
    this)

    Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com www.memecentral.com/rbrodie.htm

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