David Leeper posted a witty reply to the following.
>>What's the meme for keeping precision to a minimum?
Leeper:
>Art.
And Wade T. Smith responded with
> I see 'institutionalism' as a set of obfuscatory memes, not art.
>
> Yes? No?
I say Yes and No.
I can see institutions as producing obfuscatory (don't you just love
this language?) memes for a variety of reasons.
But I agree with David. Art is a meme that keeps precision to a minimum.
I think of it as a soft meme-- open ended ideas that can be interpreted.
Kind of like the parables spoken by Jesus on the mount. Or the book of
revelations.
A soft meme is not specifically engineered to defeat a certain other
meme, but can be reinterpreted and interpreted differently by different
people.
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