Examples
An example of an engineered meme is Godwin's Law, a meme which propagates on mail-lists, and which its author professes to have initiated to reduce spam on those lists; one version is "When someone posts a metaphor about Nazis the thread is no longer useful."
Richard Pech discusses the concept of memetic engineering within the context of countering mind contagions associated with terrorism. School shootings, for example, may be explained as an attempt to demonstrate the ultimate form of rebellion against a system in which the perpetrators feel ostracised or isolated. Acts of violence might appeal to their egos and the means for achieving this is replicated via the shooting meme. To re-engineer such a meme and its ability to infest susceptible minds, all information concerning such violence must be portrayed in an unappealing manner. For example, no one wants to be associated with acts of cowardice. By strongly suggesting that such violence is cowardly and the work of disturbed minds, it has less appeal for replication. In this manner the shooting meme has been re-engineered by removing its attraction, and therefore removing its ability to replicate. In a new up coming release Documentary on Memetic engineering, in 2012 Oct Leveious Rolando formally of Isreali Intel group is discussing the popular culture memes and how they are used to influence the global marketplace and effect the mind to accept certain concepts -ideas that will keep people in non critical thinking role or mindset.
Read more about this topic: Memetic Engineering, Applied Memetic Engineering
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