Message-Id: <v01550101b2d37788b76c@[193.149.73.96]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:07:01 +0100
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: joe.magee@mcr1.poptel.org.uk (Joe Magee)
Subject: Godwins Law
I'm new to the list - so apologies if this is covering old ground
I'm an artist and have been experimenting with nazi iconography as part of
a visual investigation into memetics.
I recently came across Godwin's law on the net - Mr Godwin's idea that when
an arguement encompasses Naziism then the arguement is dead (he
acknowledges that in some ways this is the self conscious creation of a
meme in itself).
Its an interesting idea - which I don't think is necessarily true - but it
set me thinking and I'd be interested in what others on the list think to
this.
Joe Magee
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