I read this book because I misunderstood a recommendation and thought it was a business book talking about how companies get people to forget negative information (e.g. dump news on Friday etc). Boy was that first chapter a wild ride until I figured out it was not in fact a business book
Fun story, strong recommend
riffraff · 8h ago
New book coming out soon, for those unaware
dmazin · 6h ago
Ooh, thanks for saying this! I’ll look out for it.
Their collection “humans in transit” is real good.
riffraff · 5h ago
It's a rework of the old SCP story, I asked him what changed and he said "too much to mention".
I read the original online so I'm looking forward to pay for a book just to give back. Agreed on hist short stories too!
The U.S. Army was secretly developing antimemetic weaponry as early as the 1940s.
endoblast · 1h ago
>Managing, employing and leveraging memetic power
This is propaganda, or advertising, not memeing. Propaganda is used to promote specific ideologies; memes arise spontaneously to counter them. Since all ideologies/-isms are by nature wrong, memes are generally-speaking a good thing. They're on the side of reality. They use rhetoric and fiction to point to the truth, often via some form of reductio ad absurdum. By contrast mainstream propaganda uses facts selectively in order to distort the big picture, mislead or simply distract people.
PsyOps doctrine is an interesting way of saying "the law"... at least until NDAA 2012: https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736.
Fun story, strong recommend
Their collection “humans in transit” is real good.
I read the original online so I'm looking forward to pay for a book just to give back. Agreed on hist short stories too!
This is propaganda, or advertising, not memeing. Propaganda is used to promote specific ideologies; memes arise spontaneously to counter them. Since all ideologies/-isms are by nature wrong, memes are generally-speaking a good thing. They're on the side of reality. They use rhetoric and fiction to point to the truth, often via some form of reductio ad absurdum. By contrast mainstream propaganda uses facts selectively in order to distort the big picture, mislead or simply distract people.