Sodom
Robin Faichney wrote:
> Sodom writes
> >Anyway, I could use help with three things:
> >
> >1> defining the meme
> >2> Identifying the sources and outlets for the meme
> >3> Innoculating against the mem (assuming I start from birth)
>
> 1> I think you've done a fairly good job here. Which is not
> to say that it could not be further refined.
>
> 2> Not sure what this means. Sources? Outlets? Memes don't
> come from or go to anywhere in particular, they just exist
> within the meme-pool.
>
> 3> Seems to me awareness is always the biggest single factor.
> Awareness of how advertisers and politicians try to manipulate
> us (and very often succeed) has to be the best tool in
> preventing such manipulation.
>
> BTW, it may or may not be worth mentioning, I think that such
> awareness is by the far the most important thing memetics can
> do, and I don't think it needs to be particularly scientific in
> order to do it.
> --
> Robin