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The slogan "Culture jamming theistic memes since 1995" © is thanks to the
genius of our wild and woolly ex-pres., James Still. Many people ask what
"culture jamming theistic memes" refers to, and this is just it:
Through the Secular Web, the Internet Infidels have defied the cultural
assumptions of a predominately Judeo-Christian world and dared to say
that the emperor has no clothes. Indeed, we are not just saying it, but
making a thorough case for it and publishing it for all the world to see,
where it is impossible to ignore. A "culture jammer" is someone who
challenges cultural assumptions and opens people's eyes to an underlying
truth that, through habit or denial, people have ignored or never noticed
before--like spray painting "feed me" on a billboard with a naked model
so skinny she's two pounds from dead. Memes, on the other hand, are the
units, the genes of culture: the claims and beliefs and stories that
together comprise a society's variegated ideology. These memes, through
telling and retelling, through emulation and reinvention, pass from
person to person like a virus. Though "being true" is often a strong
trait that will keep a meme alive, memes all too often spread and stick
around with a ferocious tenacity even when obviously false, like belief
in Bigfoot, or faith in the inevitable victory of the Marxist state.
Theistic memes are the beliefs that comprise "theism," or belief in God,
in all its varieties. We culture jamming infidels believe these memes are
of the Bigfoot variety. So we write "feed me" on the electric billboard
of the Internet.
© 2001 by Richard Carrier
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