Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 05:44:35 -0800
From: Marie Foster <mfos@ieway.com>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Memetic Experience
Ah... yes the predator and the prey... very cool.
Zoom wrote:
> I thought the following experience that happened yesterday was
> interesting enough to share.
>
> Driving to work, an approaching car flashes its' headlights at me. Based on
> my experience, this could mean a few things. It was during the day,
> and my headlights were not on, so the flash was not about that. I started
> to process all the other implications of this, and came to the
> conclusion that there was something of interest ahead (maybe an
> accident or something).
> It turned out to be a police car with a radar gun.
> The flash had been a warning. And I was not the only person to be flashed.
> As those who were flashed passed the police car, and in turn saw trafic
> approaching from the other direction, they also flashed a warning.
> On either side of the police car for maybe half a mile, cars going away
> from him were flashing the cars going towards him. It became an ongoing
> cycle. The 'warning--slow down' meme was passing between each car
> without so much as a single word.
> I'm sure this would have continued all day until the police car left the scene.
>
> Zoom
> www.geocities.com/athens/olympus/1293
>
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