An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.
Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you tried: complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams...
But anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war?
Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.
Kind of an X-files thing, but everyone keeps forgetting everything.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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epilogue wrote:It was a really cool little book launch event. In a church no less!
Both of those women are icons to me. One of those nights that reminds me why I continue to live in this stupid awful terrible amazing marvelous city.
Miranda July is a real piece of shit just fyi
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
epilogue wrote:It was a really cool little book launch event. In a church no less!
Both of those women are icons to me. One of those nights that reminds me why I continue to live in this stupid awful terrible amazing marvelous city.
Miranda July is a real piece of shit just fyi
That's unfortunate to hear. She's always seemed so kind and weird and lovely. She was great in conversation with Groff, if a little bad at interviewing.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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epilogue wrote:It was a really cool little book launch event. In a church no less!
Both of those women are icons to me. One of those nights that reminds me why I continue to live in this stupid awful terrible amazing marvelous city.
Miranda July is a real piece of shit just fyi
That's unfortunate to hear. She's always seemed so kind and weird and lovely. She was great in conversation with Groff, if a little bad at interviewing.
Who are you gonna believe? Lauren Groff or Mickey?
epilogue wrote:It was a really cool little book launch event. In a church no less!
Both of those women are icons to me. One of those nights that reminds me why I continue to live in this stupid awful terrible amazing marvelous city.
Miranda July is a real piece of shit just fyi
That's unfortunate to hear. She's always seemed so kind and weird and lovely. She was great in conversation with Groff, if a little bad at interviewing.
Who are you gonna believe? Lauren Groff or Mickey?
yes.
96583UP wrote:i recently bought travel-size packets of metamucil
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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