> At 01:25 AM 6/18/98 -0700, Dan Plante wrote:
>
> > Don't sweat it, Josh, I understood what you meant the first time. I also
> > agree. In terms of how Cov presents itself to the public, it certainly
> > isn't practising what it preaches. If it wants to infect as many people
> > with its ideas as possible, it's going to have to consider some "memetic
> > engineering".
>
> The intent was never to "infect as many people as possible". If I wanted
> to do that, I would promote some newagey cross between Christianity
> and Buddhism. As I have said many times before, no single vector is
> going to be effective for the whole population. My offer still stands
> for supporting new variations on the Virus theme with free mailing lists
> and web space.
> --
> David McFadzean david@lucifer.com
> Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/
> Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/
>
I agree. The purpose should not be infection, but inoculation, and
only memetic awareness can do that. Then, people can pick and choose
their own memes with full foreknowledge. Namimg memes gives one
power over them, to accept or reject them, as one wishes. In the
interest of cognitive freedom and choice, I propose we begin a "meme
list", with the major name (and aliases) of each of the most
perfusive memes, along with a brief description of memetic structure
and function for each, to be refined through list debate and
resultant evolution towards majority group consensus. How's this
sound, folks?
Salamantis