_A Meme Proper is in a "Growth" Stage_
by B. Lane Roberts
(Okay everyone, gather yourselves for a moment... center...
hear the bongos in the background... picture those black turtlenecks...
feel the angst in the room... smell that heady aroma of espresso and
cloves... and now... begin!)
>*A meme proper is in a "growth" stage.
>It has an organization
>by which it attracts
>"nutrients" (or ideas)
>which fit its pattern
>and add to its stability--
>it is "truth seeking.
>Therein arises the argument
>that a level one memespace
>--or "carrier"?--
>is also a *meme*;
>that is,
>it is
>a *level one* meme
>(it is
>memetically organized
>but is
>NOT a "virus"
>and is
>not "infectious").
>Thus,
>a "level two"
>is
>a *virus*
>whose
>systematic split seeks a singular
>resolution in a new
>memetic host which organizes
>similar to the viral
>pattern presented
>by the meme
>so that the meme
>might evolve
>via the viral
>form toward an
>e-vo-lu-tion-ary
>superior pattern.
>Level four?
Right on, Daddy-O, right-on!
-Prof. "Skins" Tim