Re: virus: Why we need a CoV Saturday morning cartoon

Sodom (sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Sat, 15 Nov 1997 00:44:06 -0500


Tim Rhodes wrote:
>
> Okay, so whatever we want out of CoV (what was the outcome of Reed's
> question anyway?) it seems obvious that ruling the world with our vastly
> superior memes is going to be a part of it.
>

I ain't playin if we ain't takin over the world!!!

> So, what better route for mass infection than children's programming? Even
> small (heavily repeated) spots would form the memetic building blocks of a
> future movement. (Example: Conjunction junction, what's your _______? A
> silly example? Maybe, but I've picked out tunes from old Schoolhouse Rock
> cartoons used as hooks in three different pop music songs in the last
> three days. All three of these songs are getting huge amounts of
> airplay.)
>

I love this idea, Barney even does it to a point. Some religios group
banned barney didn't they? He was "promoting the theory of evolution"
they said, or something like that. I have also read that on some tracts
I picked up, get to children when they are young is a common and
effective theme. getting it music is certainly one effective way, I am a
musician, ill think hard about it.

> "Zoikes! It's the Monster!!!"
> "That's no monster, David. It's just a costume, look!"
> "Lets just see whose under the mask then, Reed"
> "Gasp!"
> "Jinkies, Wade, the Old Minister was really the Monster all along!"
> "And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you
> meddlesome kids!!!"
>
> Onward to the future-
> -Prof. Tim

Hurah! hurah!