RE: Central questions of memetics

From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 23:46:16 BST

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Subject: RE: Central questions of memetics
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    Vincent wrote:

    <<The problem is Richard that it is far from 'easy' to predict what
    audiences
    are going to be interested in at anything more than a very general level of
    primal interests that you talk about. Rather like saying women pick men
    based on high mpi, it is quite a reducitve argument.>>

    Have you taken a look at the romance-novel section of a bookstore lately?

    I think those primal factors are hugely important. Beyond that, if you want
    to create a smash hit that captures the heart of the nation, it's more
    difficult. You have to stack some other resonances on top of the basic ones.
    But I think it's fairly easy to predict what WON'T be a smash hit...
    something difficult to understand, without human interest (characters that
    the audience identifies with), void of tension...

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

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