Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id HAA24053 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 1 Feb 2001 07:00:22 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.221.54] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Labels for memes Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 01:57:03 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F53tyL813LlkHT9UaEI00004f84@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Feb 2001 06:57:03.0195 (UTC) FILETIME=[2E688AB0:01C08C1C] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: William Benzon <bbenzon@mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: Labels for memes
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:24:04 -0500
>
>on 1/31/01 10:31 AM, Richard Brodie at richard@brodietech.com wrote:
>
>
>[snip]
>
> > There is no success unless the meme gets created in customers' minds.
>This
> > is memetic engineering, the conscious salting of minds with deliberate
> > self-serving memes. The meme isn't being transmitted from a source mind
>but
> > rather created from a fictionalized microdrama with the intention that
> > people's minds accept it as peer behavior.
>
>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?
>
>
Or think of a parallel to _Mission Impossible 2_ where Tom Cruise's
character sneaks into the memetic engineering lab to destroy the last traces
of the nasty mind virus which could quickly infect all of humanity if
unleashed upon the world.
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