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Michelle Wirtz
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Oli Goldsmith
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"An idea is something you have;

a n i d e o l o g y i s s o m e t h i n g thMa to rhrai ss Bye or mua. n"

NOT SELECTED FOR TYPOGRAPHIC EXCELLENCE

Wh a t

If
Id
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Were
Vir

Consider the T-phage virus. A T-phage cannot

us
es?

replicate itself; it
reproduces by hijacking the DNA of a bacterium, forcing
its host to make
millions of copies of the phage. Similarly, an idea can
parasitically
infect your mind and alter your behavior, causing you
to want to tell your
friends about the idea, thus exposing them to the ideacommunicate to others. Garbled
virus. Any idea

versions of a useful meme would presumably be selected out.

which does this is called a "meme" (pronounced `meem'). So, in theory at least, the ability to understand and communicate
Unlike a virus, which is encoded in DNA molecules,
complex memes is a survival trait, and natural selection should favor
a meme is nothing

those
more than a pattern of information, one that happens
who aren't too conservative to understand new memes. Or does it?
to have evolved a form

In
which induces people to repeat that pattern. Typical practice, some people are going to be all too ready to commit any
memes include

new meme
individual slogans, ideas, catch-phrases, melodies, that comes along, even if it should turn out to be deadly nonsense,
icons, inventions, and
like:
fashions. It may sound a bit sinister, this idea that "Jump off a cliff and the gods will make you fly."
people are hosts for
Such memes do evolve, generated by crazy people, or through
mind-altering strings of symbols, but in fact this is mis-replication. Notice, though, that this meme might have a lot of
what human culture is
appeal.
all about.

The idea of magical flight is so tantalizing -- maybe, if I truly believed,

As a species, we have co-evolved with our memes.
I just might leap off the cliff and...

Imagine a group of

This is a vital point: people try to infect each other with those
early Homo Sapiens in the Late Pleistocene epoch. memes which they find most appealing, regardless of the memes'
They've recently arrived
objective
with the latest high-tech hand axes and are trying tovalue or truth. Further, the carrier of the cliff-jumping meme might
show their Homo

never
Erectus neighbours how to make them. Those who actually take the plunge; they may spend the rest of their long lives
can't get their heads around
infecting other people with the meme, inducing millions of gullible
the new meme will be at a disadvantage and will be fools
out-evolved by their

to leap to their deaths. Historically, this sort of thing is happening all

smarter cousins.

the time.
Meanwhile, the memes themselves are evolving, just Whether memes can be considered true "life forms" or not is a

as in the game of

topic of
"Telephone" (where a message is whispered from some debate, but this is irrelevant: they behave in a way similar to
person to person, being
life
slightly mis-replicated each time). Selection favors the
forms, allowing us to combine the analytical techniques of
memes which are

epidemiology,

easiest to understand, to remember, and to

evolutionary science, immunology, linguistics, and semiotics, into an

effective system known as "memetics." Rather than debate the inherent
"truth" or lack of "truth" of an idea, memetics is largely concerned
with
how that idea gets itself replicated.
Memetics is vital to the understanding of cults, ideologies, and
marketing campaigns of all kinds, and it can help to provide immunity
from
dangerous information-contagions. You should be aware, for instance,
that
you just been exposed to the Meta-meme, the meme about memes...

Glenn Grant, Memeticist

from A Memetic Lexicon
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earworm: A tune or melody which infects a population rapidly.

a hit song. (Such as: Don't Worry, Be Happy.) (f. German, ohrwurm=earworm.)

eyeworm: A picture or style which infects a population rapidly.

(Such as: Grunge.) (f. German, augenwurm=eyeworm.)

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My head used to swim
from the perfume I
smelled.
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fumbled with her white
plastic belt.
I'd taste her baby pink
lipstick
and that s when I d melt
And she d whisper in my ear tonight
she really was mine.
Get back in front, put some hair oil
B u d d y o nH o l l y w a s s i n g i n g h i s v e r y l a s t s o n g .
With your arms around your girl you'd try to sing along.
It felt pretty good. Woo You really had a good time.
Hot patootie, bless my soul, I really love that rockn roll.
I t f e l t p r e t t y g o o d . W o o
Y o u r e a l l y h a d a g o o d
t i m e .
H o t p a t o o t i e , b l e s s m y
s o u l , I r e a l l y l o v e t h a t
r o c k n r o l l .

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Hase

Der Hase sitzt freudestrahlend im Schaukelstuhl. Hereinkommt Gott verkleidet

als Tod und will dem Hasen das Fell brsten. Brsten mochte der Hase noch nie
und jetzt erst recht nicht, wo der Tod ihm das Fell brstet. Dem Hasen fllt auf,
dass er dem Tod nicht einmal was zu trinken anbieten kann, auch
keineSitzgelegenheit, hat ja nur den Schaukelstuhl,
doch das Freudestrahlen ist ihm vergangen.
Der Tod hat jetzt auch genug vom Fellbrsten
und sagt zumHasen: Dein Fell ist hbsch und
glatt und der Hase denkt, dann geh doch
bitte gleich wieder, doch er sagt das nicht,
weil er schlielich den Tod vor Augen und in
seinem Einzimmerapartement hat, und der
ist ja dann doch wirklich ne Respektsperson
und bietet dem seinen einzigen
Schaukelstuhl an. Gott kann sich in seiner albernen Verkleidung wegen der Sense
gar nicht setzen ohne was kaputt zu machen und zieht sich aus. Als Gott dann
nackt ist, merkt auch der Hase, da das gar nicht der Tod war, der da reinkam, sondern nur ein alter Mann, der splitterfasernackt im Schaukelstuhl hockt, die Knie
anzieht und schchtern die Hnde auf seine Fuzehen legt, weil die Ngel ungeschnitten sind. Gott fngt dann an, ein paar Geschichten aus dem Leben zu
erzhlen und der Hase spitzt seine Ohren.

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