From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Mon Jan 25 1999 - 09:01:38 MST
Brian D Williams [talon57@well.com] wrote:
>It already exists, it's called "spin doctoring". The Clinton case
>is a good example. People who defend him repeat a series of
>platitudes which make no sense.
This reminds me of William Burroughs' writings decades ago about spreading
memes by getting people to repeatedly whisper them or play them back in
public; the idea being that if you repeat something often enough, the meme
will infect some number of brains that hear it.
Mark
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