virus: Basic Memes

B. Lane Robertson (metaphy@hotmail.com)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 12:09:53 PDT


Salamantis spoke of listing and describing the basic
memes:

(see chart
http://www.tctc.com/~unameit/chainjpg2.gif )

freedom- all concepts which balance creation and
destruction and which involve mixing, matching,
combination, and separation such that chance evolves
into order

specialization-- all concepts which balance matter
and energy such that positives, negatives, syntropy,
and entropy are conceptualized as evolving from
order to life.

child-- all concepts which balance id with ego such
that the masculine, feminine, and an internal and
external "super-ego" evolve ideas of life to ideals
of "god"

possession-- concepts which balance hunting with
preservation and which utilize the behaviors of
punishment, reward, protection, and nurturence to
evolve from a worldview of god to one of safety.

object permanence-- all concepts which balance
government with religion and which utilize the
behaviors of keeping, promoting, rules, and magic to
evolve safety issues to the development of tribe.

medicine-- all conceptual balances of security with
health utilizing the spheres of matter, mind, body,
and spirit; and by which the organization of tribe
becomes a technology

social-- all conceptually balanced units which span
private property and community and which organize
war, school, the physical, and the emotional from a
perspective of technology to the development of
tools

language-- the balance of numbers and words which
illustrate how rhythm, sound, wholes, and parts
combine to evolve the concept of tools to one of
historical development

art-- the balance of temples with epic traditions
which illustrate through icons, history, biography,
and engineering the memetic development from the
historical to the ideal

imagination-- all concepts which balance plotting
against planning, and which illustrate through
competition, cooperation, antagonism, and
protagonism the development from an ideal to the
emergence of individual ideas

control-- the meme which conceptually balances
status against class such that power, motivation,
rejection, and acceptance propel the idea into mass
production

standards-- the memetic organization by which the
qualities of satisfaction, when balanced with
satiation, utilize quantity, quality, product, and
process to replicate the <standards> meme-- while
evolving from an order which might be characterized
by "mass production" to one which is better
characterized by the term "mechanization".

re-creation-- the meme which balances differences
with similarities, and which uses the qualities of
contrast, comparison, originality, and copying to
replicate itself-- as mechanization evolves to a
"unique" ordering

B. Lane Robertson
Indiana, USA
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