Re: virus: Tabacco mind virus.

Tony Hindle (t.hindle@joney.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 7 Aug 1997 06:51:11 +0100

In message <33E84489.47EA@tripod.net>, Drakir <Drahcir@tripod.net>
writes
>Tony Hindle wrote:
>>
>> In message <33E58E50.41C67EA6@tripod.net>, Drakir <Drahcir@tripod.net>
>> writes
>> >Tony Hindle wrote:
>> >>
>> >> In message <33E1D172.7A79CB24@tripod.net>, Drakir <Drahcir@tripod.net>
>> >> writes
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >But if there weren't tobacco companies, where would I get my
>fags?
>> >:)
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> Discreetly, in plain white boxes from your usual place.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >The petrol station down the road?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> yes.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >And who would produce these fags for the petrol station to sell to me?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The Tabacco companies.
>> >> >
>> >> >The same tobacco companies that don't exist?
>> >>
>> >> They would still exist,
>> >
>> >But just now you said they didn't!
>>
>> Sorry, you said that I wasnt being careful (its not in my
>> nature). Its the financial support for a pro tobbaco memetic campagn
>> that wouldnt exist.
>
>So in fact tobacco companies would exist? Surely by their very
>existance they propagate memes. Think about it.

I have. But if the tobacco co.s were prevented from engaging in
a paid for campagn to memetically engineer the environment the residue
would be very small.

> There are these
>companies that don't advertise their product. Wouldn't that be the
>ultimate invitation to be extra-inquisitive, and be just as a successful
>meme as if they advertise.

Disagree. this still is begging the answer to this question

WHY DOES TOBACCO PLC SPEND SO MUCH ON ITS MEMETIC CAMPAGN?



>
>> >How about pro-tobacco memes that are not spawned by the company, but
>> >rather within society?

Such as?

>>
>> Without the financial campagn to distort the culture people
>> would quickly realise that they smoke cos they are addicted and if you
>> start you are just a cunt.
>
>You're giving human kind an awfully large amount of credit for
>intelligence. If the human race were really that clever, then we'd have
>stopped killing ourselves off years ago.

Im giving them very little credit for intelligence, I am
considering them as entirely programmed from their culture.
>
>
>

Tony