There seems to be a common tendency to confuse the medium with the
message when discussions like this come up.
These grunting and clicking noises, or teeth-baring and snorting
gestures, or whatnot, take advantage of meme structures that have
developed by common environmental factors and learned common referants
to give a `good enough' match between the memes spawned in the mind of
the observer and the intended memes to be spawned by the actor. Memes
are the cause and the eventual product, but are no more the media than
M&Ms are the media between the cocoa fields and the factory floor.
--
Alexander Williams{thantos@alf.dec.com/zander@photobooks.com}
The Mekton is a powerful tool, both physically and emotionally.
There is something that happens to an enemy when he sees his home
and family stepped on by a hundred ton metal man. -- Arkon Verian
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Of all the weapons of the Empire, the greatest and most respected
were the Metal Knights. These Knights had served the leaders of the
Bendar for Generations, righting wrongs and bringing fear to the
Empire's Enemies. It is said that these metal giants were shaped
like men so that the alien servants of Evil would know that it was
Man who defeated them.
-- Scribings from the Murian Archives