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ANNOTATION:
Pessimistic view of mimetics

Quite simply this 'lexicon' of mimetic terms is far to biased. It terms every definition on the premise that mimetics are bad. Science can't allow personal feelings to negate what the meme is or is not. This lexicon seems to perceive that memes are like a disease when in truth it is the life blood of the universe binds us. It is like a hormone or endocrine that transmits info from one person to another. While some memes can be use for negative applications this by no way means that all memes are negative. The best comparison for memes would be genes. Mimetics are about communication. Please I urge you to edit this lexicon to term the definitions in an unbiased manner that doesn't give the impression that memes are something as bad as say, a disease.


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Author
Kevin LaPierre (morphageni[ at ]aol.com)

Date
Jan 14, 2000

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