Meme Wars

If you want to get your head fucked read this essay by Colin Bennett, Meme Wars : A Fortean Essay in Story Technology. And no, he’s not talking about LOLcats.

Control of images means of course control of individual and collective imagination, which is the final objective of all image-based suggestion systems. Once that is achieved, political of control of time and thought, identity and action follow, and we feel “God” as a monkey sees and feels a hot water bottle as its loving mother. This illusion enables the creature to grow as much as does a packet full of “facts:” they are both equally as effective in operation. One is not “false” and the other “true” so much as both are different kinds of psychological management system, some more pleasant than others.

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