模倣子 intro to three-narrative model

 I still need to do some writing on it, but I’m working up a new way of modeling memetic reality, in terms of narratives, radical, conservative, and liberal. 

The liberal narrative may also be termed pseudo-liberal, crypto-conservative, or status quo apologist. 

The radical narrative can also be termed fundamental or fundamentalist. 

The radical narrative is that all people are equal, children should be cared for and paid attention to, everybody gets a place to live and enough to eat, slavery is bad, people own their own bodies, etc, etc. 

The conservative narrative is all the shit we actually do in our society, and the reasons we make up to justify our behavior. 

Accretion doesn’t really occur, isn’t really possible at the level of the radical narrative, ie , the other two narratives can accrete memetic inventory, but the radical cannot. 

One of the simpler and more obvious examples of accretion is invention of new salable product. At least one that we’re all familiar with. 

A liberal message is that our lives would be heaps better if there were flavored fizzy sugar water (with cocaine in it) available everywhere. 

That’s now part of the conservative narrative, ie, that it is almost our duty to buy Coke, even to feed it to our children, which is obviously bad for them, and for us. 

Just as a side thought: did I put you onto The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology?

Anyway, I’m working on describing how the overall memetic inventory drifts further and further from the radical narrative…

Also how the conservative narrative becomes increasingly stronger. 

My intuïtion in that it has to do with lack of trust and selfishness, and memetic polarization. 

Another part of the theory is that the liberal narrative serves as an immunomemetic system for the conservative narrative. 

Liberal attempts to question the conservative narrative actually end up strengthening it, since they are ultimately constructed on conservative memeplex.  

This may be a universal, but liberal attempts to question the conservative narrative create memes around which polarize the cohort, creating a growing memetic inventory around the very memeplex they purport to interrogate, relieve, or whatever.