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I have not wrote to my blogg for nearly 1 year now. I have missed the writing for pleasure. I have been busy busy busy and only had space for WORK and any demanded work related writing.

My apologies to my readers. HAPPY XMAS AND NEWYEAR TO ALL

I was thinking today on the topic of MEMES and how they influence our lives. Their importance in the world about us. How deeply they colonise our very thoughts, feelings and actions.

I thought of HOW memes propagate, indeed proliferate and implications for diversity management etc.

I found an article below that’s rather illustrative and to me funny, I believe many of its elements are familier to most of us.

The links at the end enable an “Education on this topic I have written about before.

I hope it makes you “SMILE.”

Here it is.

A M E M E

meme (mēm)
n. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

A “meme” is a psychological property. Like a virus it seeks to survive by drawing sustenance from other memes that confirm and reinforces its existence, it will replicate itself horizontally and vertically to guarantee it has future sustenance and reinforcement and survival. To tell it to go away or to stop working is a futile nonsense, it will simply mutate and disguise itself under any spotlight. This is why “awareness training” and the like will “always fail to deliver equality of opportunity.”

Example of a meme as:
The Ultimate Internet Mind Virus (A MEME)
For illustration and entertainment only

I know this guy whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. So anyway, one day he went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over. When he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEY HAD BEEN STOLEN and he saw a note on his mirror that said “Call 911!” but he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive if he opened an email entitled “Join the crew!”

He knew it wasn’t a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to save us from Armageddon when the year 2000 rolls around. His program will prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $600 Nieman-Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates (It’s true–I read it all last week in a mass email from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disneyworld Vacation and $5,000 if I would forward the email to everyone I know).

The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidney, but reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped a note that said “Welcome to the world of AIDS.”

Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital–the very one where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an email and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every email he receives. I sent him two emails and one of them was a bunch of X’s and O’s in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to twenty people you will have good luck but ten people only will give you OK luck and if you send it to less than ten people you will have bad luck FOR SEVEN YEARS!)

So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving along without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation.

And it’s a little-known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages.

(Author unknown)

Heh Heh!! This one had me in stiches for ages !

You can download and share the article as a .PDF from HERE

Floyd Campbell is Principal of
CAMPBELLCONSENT DIVERSITY
Specialist in Diversity Management
Consulting, Training, Research & Marketing
http://www.campbellconsent.com