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sophiaserpentiaSo, I used to laugh at preachers who made outrageous claims that the makers of children's television are putting in messages in support of the "gay agenda."
Okay, I still laugh at them, actually. But now I'm beginning to wonder if they're not onto something -- or rather, I wonder if the memetic-replication subroutines which have co-opted their brains haven't detected a threat to their well-being.
If you want your meme to really take, you have to get it in there early and often. It also helps if you can keep out the kind of instruction that allows people to see through shallow memetic viruses (such as the kind which depend on artificial deficiency for its survival).
The stakes are pretty high. It's not just a matter of buying into American Protestant Christianity; the domestication and control memeplex I have taken to calling (following the example of Philip K. Dick) the Empire, depends on a population made up of people whose brains have been conditioned for a life of sheep-hood.
Therefore one of the most subversive teachings I can imagine is the central premise of Thelema -- "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." It is therefore, to say the least, not insignificant when this is quoted on a childrens' television show.
Which I saw last night on "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy."
Okay, I still laugh at them, actually. But now I'm beginning to wonder if they're not onto something -- or rather, I wonder if the memetic-replication subroutines which have co-opted their brains haven't detected a threat to their well-being.
If you want your meme to really take, you have to get it in there early and often. It also helps if you can keep out the kind of instruction that allows people to see through shallow memetic viruses (such as the kind which depend on artificial deficiency for its survival).
The stakes are pretty high. It's not just a matter of buying into American Protestant Christianity; the domestication and control memeplex I have taken to calling (following the example of Philip K. Dick) the Empire, depends on a population made up of people whose brains have been conditioned for a life of sheep-hood.
Therefore one of the most subversive teachings I can imagine is the central premise of Thelema -- "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." It is therefore, to say the least, not insignificant when this is quoted on a childrens' television show.
Which I saw last night on "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy."
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Date: 2005-03-02 07:09 pm (UTC)But it also reinforces the idea that adults can't be trusted and aren't worth listening to. I think a steady diet of a single message can cause it to be imprinted on the psyche, and it's one more reason parents need to monitor the influence TV has on their children and act quickly to point out and neuter bad memes.
One thing my parents did right was to inoculate me against television commercials by pointing out the different types of advertising pitches. Memes are like gneechees: give 'em a good hard look and they're gone.
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Date: 2005-03-02 07:14 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, I would have to agree that in most cases that is absoolutely correct.
"One thing my parents did right was to inoculate me against television commercials by pointing out the different types of advertising pitches."
I've been doing that lately, particularly with Army commercials - you know they play thjem on the cartoon channel? The fuckers...