Re: virus: vote against creationism in schools!

Dan Plante (danp@CS347838-A.gvcl1.bc.wave.home.com)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 23:16:00 -0700


At 09:45 PM 6/26/98 -0400, Nathan Russel wrote:
>
>The idea does sound cool, but it is likely that the general public would
>misidentify is as the meme-complex known variousy as 'socialism',
>'marxism' or 'goddam communism', various long-standing immune responces
>would kick in and reject the idea.

Possibly, yes. Likely? No, not at this stage. I haven't even touched
on how the "packaging" and "marketing" of the idea might be handled,
so any analysis regarding efficacy of infection is premature at best.
Obviously, you would want to attach complimentary memes to the effort,
and to fix it in place at the other end of the spectrum from where the
prevailing aversion memes tied to bureaucracy reside.

Dan