Re: virus: Now for something completely different -- My Thesis

gary dickson (g_dickson@rocketmail.com)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 21:06:13 -0700 (PDT)

---Nathaniel Hall <natehall@WORLDNET.ATT.NET> wrote:
>
> gary dickson wrote:
>
>
> > I want to create a piece that will act as an immunizing agent
against
> > memes.
> > Gary D.
> You could have a picture of a hermit in Alaska. Can't catch any memes
> if your not exposed to the ideas of anyone else. Otherwise your
going to
> catch memes. Your only protection is to make sure the one's you do
catch
> (and come to believe) are true!
> Nate Hall
>

Immunization may have not been the most corretct word. Disinfection
may have been a better choice. Regardless, the point is that by
educating people, the possibility of them recognising what is really
going on, what they are being subjected/exposed to, or for that matter
what they have already caught (memetically speaking) improves. Their
memetic immune system is strengthened! Also, they are able to better
recognize what memes they may already have.

Gary D.

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