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		<title>Memetic Warfare</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s good to see the news is covering our favorite topic:

Everyone&#8217;s familiar with the term &#8220;meme&#8221; by now, so I don&#8217;t have to explain that it&#8217;s the unit of idea transmission. The struggle over Internet filters, or any other conflict where ideas, facts, opinions, and outlooks collide, is memetic in nature: it&#8217;s memetic warfare.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s good to see the news is covering our favorite topic:</p>
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Everyone&#8217;s familiar with the term &#8220;meme&#8221; by now, so I don&#8217;t have to explain that it&#8217;s the unit of idea transmission. The struggle over Internet filters, or any other conflict where ideas, facts, opinions, and outlooks collide, is memetic in nature: it&#8217;s memetic warfare.</p>
<p>All&#8217;s fair in war, supposedly, but I&#8217;m someone who has been infected by the meme that we should all fight fair, even &#8211; especially &#8211; in the war of ideas.</p>
<p>Will the &#8220;fight fair&#8221; meme become popular in the long run? I hope so. But the way I see it, that will only happen if it is more successful at reproducing than its alternative: &#8220;fight dirty.&#8221; <a href="http://slashdot.org/yro/00/02/14/2316202.shtml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">[slashdot.org]</a>
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<p>People are waking up to the fact that it&#8217;s war out there: a war of memes. You need to sound better than the other guy, and suppress his memes by making them look stupid. Humiliate if you can. Even better, call him a child molestor or a Nazi.</p>
<p>We can help you realize the gains from memetic warfare in three easy steps. First, we analyze you. Then, we analyze them. Then avoiding the stuff you&#8217;re guilty of, we hone in on what they&#8217;re guilty of, and explode it into a full-on armada of negative memes.</p>
<p>In a few weeks, your customers will be begging you to forget you ever worked with &#8220;the other guys.&#8221; Contact us for a quote today.</p>
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