Brin

In David Brin's "Survival of the fittest Ideas: The New Style of War- A Struggle Among Memes", describes how our society's culture and ideas are put in place by what Brin calls a meme. Memes to Brin are ideas that can be put into society by different memes and will either survive to be carried on into new generations or die within a short time. These Memes are broken down into four different categories: paranoia, manchismo, the east, and dogma of otherness. To Brin, these memes simply spread one after another, simply through person to person. Through (paranoia) it is the idea of one major super power, and others have no chance. (Machimos) refers to the oppression of women and creates revenge. (The east) meme states how we must all join together to achieve the greatest success and greatness. Lastly (dogma of otherness) supports diversity and change. Through these ideas Brin argues that society today should be far more open minded in order to succeed and stray from conflict.

I find it very interesting how Brin breaks down these ideas and beleeves in them. After reading this article, it makes me think what really makes a society run, and how does one achieve a perfect society. To me though, helping others is very important but when for example our nation is in so much debt and dire need of help, our government is out spending money and using our resources to help other countries out instead of our own. I mean if you take a look around throught the world you will see many countries are in the same place as the United States and struggling too. So it is hard to say what will or would make a perfect society.

The question just comes down to what memes shoudl one follow? Does a prefect society result from one man/women leading or should society break it down more and come together to create an superior more perfect way a life. I guess we will just have to wait and see what the furture brings us.