From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Memetic engineering challenge
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:30:49 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3783171F.6A48@easynet.co.uk>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Chris Lees
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 5:00 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Memetic engineering challenge
>
>
> Aaron wrote :
> <snip>
> > And I fear that Applied Memetics will have a long way to go as
> a science. If
> > it can even be approximated for any practical application, that
> will be a
> > triumph. The best and closest I know of in actuality is still
> Transactional
> > Analysis. And of course, Propaganda. Merging the two might even
> make some
> > starting point.
>
> Have you studied Transactional Analysis then, Aaron ?
I've read 'Games People Play'.
>I have.
> I once enquired on this list whether anyone had any thoughts
> on how memetics might 'fit' against Freudian and Jungian
> psychoanalysis, but nobody responded.
> Do you have any thoughts as to how memetics might relate to
> TA ?
The same way it relates to anything, considering that memes are defined as
idea components. But my Applied Memetics goals would be served by some sort
of effective Propaganda that disseminates and inculcates Transactional
Antithesis, among other things.
>Presumably,memes must nest somewhere in the ego/super ego/id,
> or parent/adult/child structures as conceived of in those systems.
Those concepts, of course, are now memes of popular culture. But those
aspects of the Psyche are innate. Thus, they are wet wired memes, actually
transmitted genetically. Of course, they have a lot to do with the resonance
of "software' transmitted memes. Psychology is the field that explains the
response trigger, and there fore the transmissibility and resonance, of a
meme. And this is crucial to effective Propaganda.
>
> Chris.
> http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrislees/tao.index.html
>
>
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