{"id":286,"date":"2006-04-30T10:52:30","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T15:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=286"},"modified":"2006-04-30T10:52:30","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T15:52:30","slug":"memetic-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Memetic Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bwahahaha!  My sinister master plan for world domination is<br \/>\nworking.  Straight from the pages of the highest-quality general-news<br \/>\nmagazine in English, check <a href='http:\/\/economist.com\/opinion\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=6826185'><br \/>\nthis<\/a> out!  The money &#8216;graf is the last one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMoreover, the ease with which the internet spreads<br \/>\nwrong-headedness&#8211;to say nothing of lies and slander&#8211;is offset by the<br \/>\nease with which it spreads insights and ideas. To regret the glorious<br \/>\nfecundity of new media is to choose the hushed reverence of the<br \/>\ncathedral over the din of the bazaar.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s an old saw to the effect that there&#8217;s no limit to what you<br \/>\ncan accomplish if you don&#8217;t care who gets the credit.  More precisely,<br \/>\nwhen your signature memes start showing up as generative metaphors in<br \/>\nelite and popular usage <em>with your name stripped off them<\/em>, you<br \/>\nknow you&#8217;re winning.<\/p>\n<p>Winning, that is, at the only game that is really interesting &#8212;<br \/>\nchanging the world.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to my blogson Walter Hunt over at <a href='http:\/\/www.walterhunt.com\/blog\/?p=11'>Stone of Remembrance<\/a>,<br \/>\nthough I&#8217;d have seen it anyway in my weekly <cite>Economist<\/cite> and<br \/>\nlater did.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bwahahaha! My sinister master plan for world domination is working. Straight from the pages of the highest-quality general-news magazine in English, check this out! The money &#8216;graf is the last one: Moreover, the ease with which the internet spreads wrong-headedness&#8211;to say nothing of lies and slander&#8211;is offset by the ease with which it spreads insights&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=286\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memetic Success<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}