virus: level 3

Ken Pantheists (kenpan@axionet.com)
Tue, 12 Nov 1996 13:42:26 +0000


D. Leeper:
Yes, but these classifications of memes act differently from each other,
as I pointed out above. To say it's _just_ a meme is to ignore some
valuable analysis on their behaviors.
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How do they behave differently? They infect, reproduce and spread.
That's all that matters, right?

Leeper:
The basis of democracy is people vote to elect their leaders. What's
the
basis of Level 3? Its been _months_ now and still no solid answer.
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If that's all democracy meant, it would seem silly to invoke it in so
much of the political rhetoric that's out there. I think you have
conveniently simplified "democracy". I still hold that if I were to ask
a newly landed immigrant from a third world country "what is democracy?"
and a steel worker from New Jersey the same question, I would get two
different answers-- two versions of the meme.

As for Level 3- you're still asking the wrong question: there is no
solid answer. (Maybe you should try some less solid questions?)

Leeper:
I never said there was no meme called Level 3. I said that such a meme
is
poorly defined, sold, and used as a basis to insult people.
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That's exactly how memes behave. Democracy fits the above description to
a T. Even if you still don't want to have anything to do with level
three, hasn't it been fun to just watch it "behave" on the list?

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Regards
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