From: Bruce Howlett (brucehowlett@northnet.com.au)
Date: Sun 09 Mar 2003 - 21:32:50 GMT
Well maybe. This could be a chicken and egg argument. Do you think that the producers and script writers deliberately sat down and decided to try to influence the rest of the world? Or did the biases and beliefs (memes) held by those people just flow through into the movie?
Regards,
Bruce Howlett
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeremy Bradley
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: Memes For Peace
At 07:33 AM 10/03/03 +1100, you wrote:
> Hi Jeremy. If it were possible to inject a meme into an
organisation that would fix all the problems then I would be delighted.
The reality is that memes do not work this way. The memes carried in the
movies were a result of
>the culture that made the movies, not intentionally planted to corrupt
>aboriginal kids. Good luck with the election. Regards, Bruce Howlett
We must agree to differ Bruce, and media studies was my first BA. It is my
perception is that the US movie machine has a normative conditioning
function. The intention is to spread a specific attitude around the globe.
Where this is resisted due to pre-existing memetic, or cultural codes, the
centre of resistance is denounced as being 'un-american'. In the past, as
it is now, if this 'un-american' sentiment is bad for usanian domination of
culture (and business) active and/or covert intervention is deemed to be
necessary.
Jeremy
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