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09-09-2014, 01:33 PM | #12 | |
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09-09-2014, 01:53 PM | #13 |
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Re: Is video game violence memetic?
"If memes are real, this post is made from them, and by reading it, they are replicating."
Is good prose. It scans. It's creepy. It's simple. "If memes are really discrete replicators, and culture is obligated to be memetic, then this post is therefore composed of memes. A reader, who fully comprehends this text, who is able to mentally verbalize these words, and has functional short term memory, must therefore replicate these memes at least once by translating them lexically and storing them in short term memory. You are therefore, if you fit the above criteria, now replicating these memes." Is terrible prose. It lacks poetry or emotional impact. |
09-09-2014, 02:17 PM | #14 |
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Re: Is video game violence memetic?
Well, we are affected by what we experience. Sometimes minimally.
But pure objectivity is not possible for any human or anything we influence or create. A beautiful sunset is just as much external manipulation as any ad.
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09-09-2014, 02:24 PM | #15 | |
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*If memes are the obligate real discrete replicators of culture. |
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09-14-2014, 06:35 PM | #16 |
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Re: Is video game violence memetic?
That's not my objection. People that can read a language don't always fully engage with the content they read. Even people who are considered otherwise extremely literate may not recognize the existence of subtext, for instance.
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09-16-2014, 01:48 AM | #17 |
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Re: Is video game violence memetic?
Start with the real?
Violence is a form of entertainment justified through cultural transmissions. The state is violent to others therefore, to be correct, the state must pass on through cultural links that violence is good and there is also bad violence that can be defeated by good violence. |
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The fact that the government is uninvolved in the creation of videogames - or, indeed, the vast majority of entertainment - is merely one problem with that analysis. Then there's the question of whether the state shapes or is shaped by cultural influences, not to mention the huge problems with the first six words: "violence is a form of entertainment" - um, no! |
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I suppose if it only loaded into his short term memory and then vanished without making any durable changes you could call that reading but not replication.
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09-16-2014, 11:23 AM | #20 | |
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