Re: <nettime> social media & political activism redux

[John Young <jya@pipeline.com>]

Oui! Oui! Oui! Oui! Piggybanking all the way home!

Jesus Fucking Christ!, Marx Fucking Engels!, Che Fucking Fidel! 
Godwin Fucking Nazis! Greenwald Fucking Snowden!

At 05:43 AM 11/2/2014, you wrote:

> Maybe one aspect of the -Law of the Meme- (take for example the 1% 
> meme) is that meme's sometimes persist far longer that instances of 
> mass mobilisation.
> Memes that spring from even brief crystalisations of underlying 
> social movements can be one of the ways in which important shifts in 
> values are propelled
> into the wider world.
> Andy Haldane the highly influential Chief Economist of the Bank of 
> England is on record as acknowledging the importance of the Occupy movement
> in focusing public attention on the malign influence of the 
> financial sector and of extremes of inequality.
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