RE: UKNM: Memes and marketing

[Rory Teeling]

I meant net marketers


Now we can propogate an idea or meme throughout the

(online) world at real time speed, and potentially

deposit that meme in more incubators than ever before,

does that make us different from traditional marketers

(only in the sense of meme distribution of course!)


Ps i think it was Dr Susan Blackmore who first

incubated the meme meme, not Richard Dawkins, although

he too has propogated the idea


--- Lee Bryant <

leetmg [dot] co [dot] uk

> wrote:

> See Richard Dawkins' books "The Blind Watchmaker"

> and "the Selfish Gene" --

> he is a zoologist by training who developed a very

> interesting new

> perspective on Darwinism and evolution in general.

> 

> According to his model of the 'meme', which is more

> popular and widely used

> than you probably realise, "we" (do you mean humans

> or Net marketeers --

> there is a difference!) are just hosts by which

> memes propagate themselves,

> like we carry and pass on viruses.

> 

> It would be just too pompous to suggest we are

> God-like memetic creators --

> there is nothing new under the sun, after all.

> 

> Lee

> 

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Rory Teeling [rory_teelingyahoo [dot] com (mailto:rory_teelingyahoo [dot] com)]

> Sent: 03 April 2000 15:08

>

To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: UKNM: Memes and marketing

> 

> 

> Apropos of nothing going on in discussions to date:

> 

> Has anybody come across memetic theory, wherein the

> argument is posited that ideas, like genes have an

> inherent 'desire' to propogate and replicate, and

> peoples minds are fundamentally meme incubators. 

> 

> Strong memes invade minds and 'evict' less strong

> memes. Information iteslf is merely the carrier of

> memes, and opens the mind to allow the meme carried

> to

> take up residence.

> 

> If this is true, what does that make us in the meme

> transfer and evolution model?



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