From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed 28 May 2003 - 22:18:24 GMT
>From: joedees@bellsouth.net
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: RE: back to basics
>Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 16:00:32 -0500
>
> > Lawry wrote:
> >
> > <<We have, of course,
> > agreed earlier that memetic engineering is not possible.>>
> >
> > Huh?
> >
>What are successful advertizing or political campaigns?
>
They are successful advertizing or political campaigns respectively.
Advertizing and political campaigns have been around for quite a while
longer than memetics. I wonder whether advertizers (or marketing majors) and
politicians (or political science majors) could learn much more from
memetics or so-called "memetic engineering" than trivial gee-whiz
redifinition of what they've been doing for years or if memeticists could
learn from these fields how the real world actually works, beyond sterile
theorizing based on dubious biological analogy.
After what Dace posted on memetics not being up to par with social
psychology and cognitive psychology, I would wonder the same for these
fields too. A trivial redifinition of memory (ie- the meme as a subclass of
memory) may not add much to the repertoire of memory research than a
"Gee-whiz, that's nice. Next!"
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