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on 1/31/01 6:46 PM, Lawrence DeBivort at debivort@umd5.umd.edu wrote:
> Bill, what do you mean, 'turn on their masters'? Do you mean that the effect
> of th ememe was counter to what its launcher intended -- that it backfired?
> or are you thinking that a meme 'mutated' in some way during the course of
> its dissemination and that the mutated meme then harmed the interests of the
> launcher?
Either one is fine by me. The memes are concerned about their interests,
not the master's, no?
BB
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