Re: virus: Tabacco mind virus.

Drakir (Drahcir@tripod.net)
Wed, 06 Aug 1997 10:31:53 +0100

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. 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.

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

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