07 DEC 2024 by ideonexus
GITS Laughing Man in Real Life
The real lesson of the GITS Laughing Man for the digital age is not about myth or becoming a folk hero. Anti-corpo is just the surface level
It is about copycats and the viral spread of memes. Not all memes succeed in going viral. But Once everyone (even foreign adversaries manufacturing outrage) amplifies a meme, it takes on a life of its own, to become a powerful force to shape opinion and distort truth.
Agents spam memetic messaging to gain acceptance and followers, not to spread truth. ... 1 
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notes27 NOV 2018 by ideonexus
Emotional Contagions in Social Networks
These results highlight several features of emotional contagion. First, because News Feed content is not “directed” toward anyone, contagion could not be just the result of some specific interaction with a happy or sad partner. Although prior research examined whether an emotion can be contracted via a direct interaction (1, 7), we show that simply failing to “overhear” a friend’s emotional expression via Facebook is enough to buffer one from its effects. Second, although nonverbal ... 1 notes
notes09 SEP 2016 by ideonexus
Why Did Everyone Draw that Fancy "S" in Grade School
"The reason kids go through this is probably because it's a Moebius strip," he said, referring to the sort of looped one-surface shapes Escher was fond of drawing. "It can't be drawn continuously, but it does have a perpetual flow."
I think he was on to something. Most nine-year-olds can't draw, so when someone hands them a magical recipe to create something fairly cool, on demand—that'll go viral. Especially when the shape has the sophisticated, mathematical lineage of a Moebius strip. Y... 1 notes
notes09 AUG 2014 by ideonexus
vMemes
PURPLE (B-O) thinking works on emotion, security, rituals, tokens, sense of belonging (my family, my friends, my workplace) and is very responsive to peer and family pressures
RED (C-P) thinking is assertive (aggressive!), energetic, powerful, indulgent, self-centred and wants to dominate/be the best
BLUE (D-Q) thinking is concerned with procedures, routines, order, quality, the correct way of doing things, is highly responsive to the 'correct' higher authority and punishes 'sinners...Folksonomies: memetics
Folksonomies: memetics
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notes09 AUG 2014 by ideonexus
Levels of Subsisdence
THE FIRST TIER VALUE SYSTEMS; The Levels of Subsistence[5]
Beige[edit]
"Survival/Sense. The Instinctive vMEME
Automatic, autistic, reflexive
Centers around satisfaction
Driven by deep brain programs, instincts and genetics
Little awareness of self as a distinct being (undifferentiated)
Lives "off the land" much as other animals
Minimal impact on or control over environment"[6]
Purple[edit]
"Kin Spirits. The Clannish vMEME
Obey desires of the mystical spirit beings
Show allegiance to ... 1 notes
notesLevels of cognition in Spiral Dynamics.
21 APR 2014 by ideonexus
"Susicion of Authority" is Also Propaganda
While individuals get our empathy and sympathy, institutions seldom do. The "we're in this together" spirit of films from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s later gave way to a reflex shared by left and right, that villainy is associated with organization. Even when they aren't portrayed as evil, bureaucrats are stupid and public officials short-sighted. Only the clever bravado of a solitary hero (or at most a small team) will make a difference in resolving the grand crisis at hand.
This rule of con...
1 A conspiracy meme that comes from both the left and right.
22 JAN 2014 by ideonexus
Friedrich Engels Funeral Oration for Marx
Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion, art, etc, and that therefore the production of the immediate material means of subsistence and consequently the degree of economic development attained by a given people ... 1 notes
notesMarx discovered the law of evolution in human history, how memes took over from our genes if social circumstances allow for it.
12 JAN 2014 by ideonexus
Selections From a Memetic Lexicon
Auto-toxic
Dangerous to itself. Highly auto-toxic memes are usually self-limiting because they promote the destruction of their hosts (such as the Jim Jones meme; any military indoctrination meme-complex; any "martyrdom" meme). (GMG) (See exo-toxic.)
bait
The part of a meme-complex that promises to benefit the host (usually in return for replicating the complex). The bait usually justifies, but does not explicitly urge, the replication of a meme-complex. (Donald Going, quoted by Hofstadte... 1 notes
notesThe most useful and interesting terms.
02 JAN 2014 by ideonexus
Marxism-Leninism as a "spiritual atom bomb"
In our great motherland, a new era is emerging in which the workers, peasants and soldiers are grasping Marxism-Leninism, Mao Tse-tung's thought. Once Mao Tse-tung's thought is grasped by the broad masses, it becomes an inexhaustible source of strength and a spiritual atom bomb of infinite power. The large-scale publication of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung is a vital measure for enabling the broad masses to grasp Mao Tse-tung's thought and for promoting the revolutionization of our p... 1 notes
notesIncluded here for it's interesting phrasing, recognizing the power of ideas and spreading them.
Additional Note: Although many memes are included from this book, left out are many objectionable memes about propaganda and waging war. Need a way to leave commentaries on references.
29 DEC 2013 by ideonexus
Memetic Sex
There are many similarities between genes and memes. Just as genes transmitted during sexual intercourse in the biosphere, so are ideas trans¬ mitted during social intercourse in the mental realm, or ideosphere.
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The memetic realm also hahas some important differences from the genetic realm. Memes combine, recombine, mutate, and reproduce much more flexly and rapidly than genes do. This is one way that genetic sex does not map completely to memetic sex. For example, the memetic count...
1 Many of the concepts in genes apply to ideas, including cross-breeding, safe-sex, inbreeding, and species.
