virus: Email Meme

Brett Lane Robertson (unameit@tctc.com)
Thu, 04 Dec 1997 08:58:14 -0500

>This is a unique demonstration of a meme. Our* ideal is to replicate the
mechanical process of a meme. *Your* job is to reproduce the process--AND
YOU CAN ADD YOUR OWN "PRODUCT". Your message will be included according to
your standards. In quantity! With quality! To Your satisfaction and with
the greatest possible effect!
>
>Just place your own message below the line where it says <your message
here> leaving everything above <your message here> unchanged and forward to
several friends. (Or leave the entire message unchanged and forward
anyway...but keep virus@lucifer.com in the address line so we can compare
and contrast the similarities and differences between the original <message>
and the "copies").
>
><your message here>
>
>*Virus is a collection of mutually-supporting ideas (a meme-complex)
encompassing philosophy, science, technology, politics, and religion. The
core ideas are based on evolution and memetics because one of the primary
design goals was survivability through adaptation (religions die, not
because they grow old, but because they become obsolete). If a new religion
is designed around the premise of continuously integrating better (more
accurate, more useful) concepts while ensuring the survival of its
believers, it could conceivably achieve true immortality.
(http://www.lucifer.com/virus/intro.html)

List,

Sometime this evening after midnight (my time) I have every intention of
forwarding this email meme to several friends. If there is no immediate
objection, we will start receiving copies of it back in our mailboxes as
forwarded through the list-server. I am still open to suggestions
(particularly concerning the words I have chosen to represent the related
ideas which form each meme--process, product, quality, etc.--and as to the
suitability of the quote from meme central which I have included as <our
message here>). Failing to receive suggestions, however, I think that this
email is an adequate "meme" for preliminary testing of the email meme idea.

LAST CALL!

Brett

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