RE: Cons and Facades

From: Bruce Jones (BruceJ@nwths.com)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 18:10:12 BST

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From: Bruce  Jones <BruceJ@nwths.com>
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Subject: RE: Cons and Facades
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:10:12 -0500
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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Aaron Lynch [SMTP:aaron@mcs.net]
    > Subject: Cons and Facades
    >
    > At 03:49 PM 6/10/00 -0400, Wade T.Smith wrote (in Imitation or
    > transmission
    > thread):
    >
    > <snip>
    >
    > >Because calling, as Aaron has mentioned, "paraphrasings of existing
    > >marketing science", memetic engineering, is, just as he also said, the
    > >facade of a con.
    > >
    > >- Wade
    >
            [BJ] For a con to work you first have to have a recipient that is
    easily led. Second you have to have a master at
            manipulation. And third you have to have a popular misconception
    based on a lack of knowledge.

            As I see it none of these exist in memetics. None on this list has
    indicated a propensity to being led ANYWHERE. Second none on this list has
    been able to manipulate any other person on this list. Third since we on
    this list seem to be the only ones interested in memetics the only thing we
    have is an understanding of a lack of cohesive knowledge about the subject.
    The only facade then is the person or persons that intimate a vast knowledge
    and/or understanding of the subject. And, since this is a group that
    readily understates their need for understanding and knowledge about
    memetics, facades will and do stand out like sore thumbs.

            Bruce Jones

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