Re: Memes For Peace

From: Bruce Howlett (brucehowlett@northnet.com.au)
Date: Sun 09 Mar 2003 - 23:05:56 GMT

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    Ok Jeremy. Now that you've signed off, I can get the last word in ;-)

    My point was two-fold. Firstly, that the likely source of memes transmitted through movie media were in fact the result of the culture to which the movie makers belong. And secondly, if manipulation is attempted, as you say in the case of 9/11, it does not mean that a meme event is achieved.

    Regards,

    Bruce Howlett

      ----- Original Message -----
      From: Jeremy Bradley
      To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
      Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:22 AM
      Subject: Re: Memes For Peace

      At 08:32 AM 10/03/03 +1100, Bruce wrote:
      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

      For me Bruce, the memetic codification of culture enables perceptions of
      appropriacy within that culture. It is therefore not so much a situation of
      writers and producers plotting to dominate the world of thought as them
      doing what they do 'normally'.
      Though, that said, it is common knowledge that Washington called in the top
      producers and 'informed them' of how '9 11' was to be portrayed in movies.
      That is the 'engineering' part of memetic codification.
      Sorry all, that will have to suffice from me for now as I'm too busy to
      play right now (stop smiling Joe)
      Jeremy

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