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At 01:41 PM 9/02/02 -0500, you wrote:
>
>So far as I know memetics has not been used to create a meme or resulting
>social movement for either good or evil.
>
>Keith Henson
>
>
Hi Keith
I would say that this is a moot point. Propagandists and jingoistic
nationalist campaigns use memetics (maybe without naming it as such). Add.
companies manufacture 'cool', cute, smart and so on with memetics.
Also, I suspect that the 'green' movement uses something close to memetics
to counter the engineered 'greed-is-good' meme(um, not that I would tho).
That's what I reckon anyway.
Jeremy
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