Re: Labels for memes

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 23:00:35 GMT

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    Hi William Benzon --

    >Have there been any cases of memetic rebellion where such deliberately
    >engineered memes decide to turn on their masters? If so, what? If not,
    >what tricks do memetic engineers use to keep their memes in line?

    Ya know, it's a horrible, horrible, thing, that the term 'memetic
    engineering' gets bandied about at all.

    But, in some small effort to squash it for ever and always, and to
    simplify the concept by returning it to the realm of 'persuasion' that it
    belongs in, let us not forget New Coke.

    Or the Edsel.

    Frankenstein Monsters, both of 'em.

    - Wade

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