RE: virus: survival or entertainment?

Chelstad, Erik (chelste@data-io.com)
Thu, 21 May 1998 14:06:21 -0800

So, does anyone else see Hollywood as a giant magnifying lens for
memes? Small ideas, like some screenwriter's fear of big space
borne rocks, possibly fed from some lovely little rag like Time or
People
and a healthy diet of cocaine and diet-soda, feed into a money burning
engine and blaze out into millions of awaiting viewers.

I've always enjoyed watching the main ideas (or would those be
meta-memes?)
proliferated through the pop culture channels. Tonight on news at 9....
a real life Jurassic Park right here in Seattle.....you know the
symptoms when
one of these viruses attacks the national organism.

Just my imagination????

eEc