Re: virus: What makes memes compete?

Martz (martz@martz.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:11:22 +0100


On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Dave Pape <davepape@dial.pipex.com> wrote:

>So here's another question: How many copies of a kind of meme do you host?
>EG, I have memes like:
>
>"Don't like dogs"
>"Look at that crappy dog"
>"Dogs piss me off"
>"Dogs shit all over the fcken pavement"

Aren't they all just different verbalisations of the same underlying
meme? Or have you created a meta-meme (don't like dogs) to consolidate a
number of smaller, interrelated memes?

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