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23 lines
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Memetic Success
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<p>Bwahahaha! My sinister master plan for world domination is<br />
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working. Straight from the pages of the highest-quality general-news<br />
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magazine in English, check <a href='http://economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=6826185'><br />
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this</a> out! The money ‘graf is the last one:</p>
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<blockquote><p>
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Moreover, the ease with which the internet spreads<br />
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wrong-headedness–to say nothing of lies and slander–is offset by the<br />
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ease with which it spreads insights and ideas. To regret the glorious<br />
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fecundity of new media is to choose the hushed reverence of the<br />
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cathedral over the din of the bazaar.
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</p></blockquote>
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<p>There’s an old saw to the effect that there’s no limit to what you<br />
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can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit. More precisely,<br />
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when your signature memes start showing up as generative metaphors in<br />
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elite and popular usage <em>with your name stripped off them</em>, you<br />
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know you’re winning.</p>
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<p>Winning, that is, at the only game that is really interesting —<br />
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changing the world.</p>
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<p>(Hat tip to my blogson Walter Hunt over at <a href='http://www.walterhunt.com/blog/?p=11'>Stone of Remembrance</a>,<br />
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though I’d have seen it anyway in my weekly <cite>Economist</cite> and<br />
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later did.)</p>
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