From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Memetic engineering challenge
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:26:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.990707000747.16873B-100000@maigret.umd.edu>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Lawrence H. de Bivort
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 12:11 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: malicious gossip
>
>
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Aaron Agassi wrote:
>
> De Bivort:
> >> I'll offer a provocation: no one is beyond the reach of _any_
> meme, if it
> >> is designed well enough.
>
> Agassi:
> >Shall I offer a meme design challenge?
>
> Excellent, please do.
> (Reservation: if the response calls for discussion that is best not done
> publicly, I'll avoid doing so.)
I will be nothing less than thrilled to get anywhere near a point where
secrecy is either warranted or desired!
I'm going to start, generally, even vaguely. I started out by speaking of
the Memetic Epidemiology of malicious gossip. Let me now introduce a related
phenomenon. Abusers are tightly organized. But victims tend to be kept in
the dark. For example, effortlessly, the domineering and violent spouse
always seems to have their partner under constant surveillance by equally
psychotic buddies. But the victim will have no intelligence resources what
so ever. Evil networks easily and readily. And we all contend with chronic
enablers. Resistance to evil, however, networks ineffectually. The proposed
set of meme must be an organizational principle to resist, expose,
undermine, and denounce malice and domination, from the petty to the
flagrant. It should also be an organizational principle for constructive
play, that includes resistance to jealous sabotage.
>
>
>
> Lawrence de Bivort
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