memetic engineering

Sustainability is a hot button topic right now. Almost every country has shown some interest in getting involved with the sustainability movement at the risk of being looked at as wasteful and environmentally unfriendly. Even the US government has begun backtracking on their previously denying of global warming. But what is sustainability really? Many people associate sustainability with being green however that is only one small part of the total picture.

According to hhavensteincw over at Slashdot, there’s a new Google Bomb campaign to get liberal bloggers to associate John McCain with a number of posts and articles that highlight “ugly” things about the Republican Presidential candidate:

Memetic engineering is a term developed by three individuals; Leveious Rolando, John Sokol, and Gibran Burchett while they researched and observed the behavior of humans after being purposely exposed (knowingly and unknowingly) to certain memetic themes. The term is based on Richard Dawkins theory of memes.

• Paranoid Shift
• US Supreme Court To Decide: If Guantanamo Is US Territory Then 80% of Nevada Is British Territory! Rest Is Owned By UK Citizens
• The LOLCat Meme Makes Me Crazy
• The "EX-US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, NASA & Godless "ASS-TEROIDS"
• Definition of Meme
• US State Dept May Have Paid To Train 9/11 Terrorists In Special Operations?
• Priscilla Presley Claimed On Larry King That "Elvis' Twin Alive Today"..Yoko Ono, Ft. Detrick; Ft. Chaffee, PsyOps & MarkChapman
• Abraham & The Oil God, Phoenician Child Sacrifice, Masonic 33rd Degree; Tanit & Great Seal of US; "V" The Face of the Bull
• 800 FEMA PRISON CAMPS: TIME TO TAKE THE GLOVES OFF! vs "The Meme Driven Life"
• Civil Air Patrol;CIA; Darpa; Renditions; Texas School Book Depository ; Falcon 20; Nevada Electroni Air War; 101 Missing Pilots!
• Top End Times Meme?
• Saskwatch In Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania..Sept 16th, 2007 (or my Brother-in-Law)
• Stolen Cruise Missile With Nukes: 40.07; Nevada Desert; 100 Private Planes & Steve Fossett; Secret C-130 Flights To Libya?
• "NEW" Northwest Passage: Canada vs US; Global Warming Or Nuclear Re-Engineering The Arctic
• Some Examples of Memetic Engineering
• DID Mossad HACK german White House Server; Remotely Authorize, Steal & ReProgram/Launch Nuke Cruise Missile To Syria?
• "V" for Victory; "V" Peace Sign To Strangers' "V"-Roman Numeral 5; "Beethoven's Vth"; Morse Code "...-"and the Dane Law!
• Putin's "Koval-Manhattan Spy" Story is "Ditz-Information"...to Incriminate "Jews" and Defray Nuke Suspicion From Prescott Bush!
• Tat-oooohh, "Tattily A-tired"! Ink-Lovers Unite! "Nancy Pelosi in East Germany! WOW!" Can Bush Be Far Behind?
• Albert Einstein as Philosopher and Wise Man

I am so fascinated by the concept of memetic engineering that I scored the domain name, memeticengineer.com. So, I would love to share with you some examples of what people are saying about memetic engineering.

The Memetic Engineers are the newest--and most unusual--of the
Methodologies in the Technocracy. They are masters of a special form of
thought-crafting. They study ideas, concepts, and beliefs as living
beings: autonomous creatures capable of evolution and mutation. Via Totse

In the late 50's, an amalgam of New World Order technomancers
latched onto an experimental theory known as Cybernetics. This theory

Memetic engineering consists of the process of developing memes,
through meme-splicing and memetic synthesis, with the intent of
altering the behavior of others. It consists of the process of creating
and developing theories or ideologies based on an analytical study of
societies, their ways of thinking and the evolution of the minds that
comprise them. Attempts at Artificial Meme-Phrase Creation have not met
with noted success, though apocryphal stories tell of the putative
origins of these sorts of memes.

JD, over at the Small Wars Council, wants to know if anyone has "applied memetics to military operations" and also if "fighting ideas with ideas" is possible to do with memetics.

The study of memes and their social effects.

1. One who studies memetics. 2. A memetic engineer. (GMG)

One who consciously devises memes, through meme-splicing and memetic synthesis, with the intent of altering the behavior of others. Writers of manifestos and of commercials are typical memetic engineers. (GMG)

A form of intolerance; a condition which causes a person to react in an unusually extreme manner when exposed to a specific semiotic stimulus, or `meme-allergen.' Exo-toxic meme-complexes typically confer dangerous meme-allergies on their hosts. Often, the actual meme-allergens need not be present, but merely perceived to be present, to trigger a reaction. Common meme-allergies include homophobia, paranoid anti-Communism, and porno phobia. Common forms of meme-allergic reaction are censorship, vandalism, belligerent verbal abuse, and physical violence. (GMG)