Monday, October 12, 2009

My efforts bear tangible fruit

Please see The Magic Words about Bush/Cheney, below (9/15/09), to understand this reference.

Armenian foreign minister Edouard Nalbandian (2nd L) and Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu (2nd R) shake hands during the signing ceremony of the protocols and statements between Armenia and Turkey in Zurich, Oct. 10, 2009.

Photograph by: PATRICK B. KRAEMER/AFP/Getty Images

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Welcome to Memetics & Marketing™ !

There is considerable value - intellectual, social, historical and financial - in understanding how knowledge is recognized, used and passed on. This is the field of memetics.

However, I make my living practicing this art - which is something 30-somethings cannot do and off-shore service centers cannot do. I am good at this and not inclined to give away my store.

On my other blogs, I discuss principles. Memetics &Marketing™ is my trade. To protect my trade, forgive me for being only anecdotal on this subject.

In another place, I opined that memetics, hermeneutics & semiotics constituted the VooDoo Trifecta of our times. I believe that. Generally the obscure and fuzzy points of view produced by these fields are intellectual junk, meant to make meaning meaningless. Word's spell-checker wants to correct memetics to emetics; in general, one can scarcely quarrel with the assessment.

However, it all works well here . . .welcome to Memetics & Marketing™!

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Memetics & Marketing™ has attracted readers from 53 countries. I've been pleased and flattered by this attention.

Assaults on meaning and drastic surgery in education have resulted in a general public that does not learn primarily through the Aristotelian/Thomistic system of logic – through principle, induction and deduction. The general means of learning in western culture have become simple, inane repetition by electronic media. This is actually a degeneration of western culture into the older tribal habits of other parts of the world and of pre-Enlightenment Europe. The scarcity of American math and science students is partially accounted for by this re-primitivization of American education and culture.

The Voodoo Trifecta of Non-sense actually has something to contribute to this re-primitivized, media-saturated cultural phenomenon because the question remains how to educate – or, at least, motivate – people who are inured of reason?

The answer is, obviously, voodoo! You get witch-doctors to conjure the images and associations that will motivate the enormous numbers of people who do not know how to think analytically or synthetically.

How else do you account for the election of Barack Obama on a platform of hope and change with no specifics? How else do you account for the legislature passing precedent-shattering laws while admitting that no one has read them? How else do you account for the White House spending $500,000/week on media management?

If the Republicans think they have a prayer to win in 2010 or 2012, they better begin with understanding this process. See a prior blog entry entitled “Defining Failure Before the Next Election,” which may be the most blog entry here.

I can even recommend a witchdoctor: me.

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Absence of Probable Cause: I seldom say anything nice about anyone.

About these FCC Disclosure Requirements: They are over-broad and, by the FCC’s own statement, intended to be selectively enforced. This is contrary to the First Amendment. This is the face of totalitarian repression.

Why not parallel disclosure requirements from newspapers and broadcast?

Why doesn’t the Obama/Pelosi/Reid triumvirate require similar disclosure from the Congress?

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Monday, October 12, 2009

My efforts bear tangible fruit

Armenian foreign minister Edouard Nalbandian (2nd L) and Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu (2nd R) shake hands during the signing ceremony of the protocols and statements between Armenia and Turkey in Zurich, Oct. 10, 2009.

Photograph by: PATRICK B. KRAEMER/AFP/Getty Images

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