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Anti-Bush Memetic Warfare

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21:38 / 23.11.04

Alternatively, the Democrats could put up a candidate in 2008 who isn't a complete douche. Not that Bush isn't a douche. It's just that fighting douche with douche rarely works. You need a douche crusher.

22:02 / 23.11.04

Turd Sandwich in 2008!

Tom, you're point is well taken but such a solution would only upset the other half of the country. The Republicans would strangle any Dem tenure just on principle. The point of this thread is to consider possible memetic advert strategies for influencing the vast numbers of Christians in our country. This is more of a ground-up approach, as oppoesed to the top-down pres candidate angle.

07:03 / 26.11.04

In support of Z. deScathach's point: The thing about slogans like "False Prophet" and "Evil Wins 2004" is that they're harsh enough to get immediately tuned out by W's faithful. It reminds me of George Orwell writing about Newspeak in 1984: Saying something like "Big Brother is doubleplusungood" simply won't make any sense to people and they'll just ignore it. You've got to carefully seduce them. (And that was the point of Newspeak: it got rid of the subtlety necessary for seduction.)

You know who really gets "memetic warfare"? The cognitive linguist George Lakoff. For him, it's all about framing the discussion properly.

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