Re: virus: UTism and Media Memetics

psypher (overload@fastmail.ca)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 08:43:23 -0400 (EDT)

Prof. Tim asserted:

> Which is another approach to the same idea -- rather than create a
> larger "THEM", you can redefine the "US" as a bigger, more inclusive
> group. (Although I think our genetic predisposition to live in
groups
> of 500-1000 may make that an uphill battle for any meme.)

...true enough - if our predisposition is at that level [500-1000], which sounds reasonable to me. But what about the potential for networking together those 1000 member communities under in common endeavour while still retaining theircharacter as communities?

-psypher



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