Memes to avoid:
Memes that people are out to get us
Memes that sections of society are out to get us
Memes that we (the guys in the white hats) are superior to others
Memes that the people of other countries are inferior, dislike us, are plotting against us
Memes that being unkind to people is fun or cool
Memes that its them or us
Memes that to attack the meme is wrong, that to question a meme is wrong, or reject a meme is wrong
Memes that society has been bad to us and we have a right to take revenge
Memes that deny us our free will - our right to choose our path
Memes that justify the unjustifiable
Fear memes, superiority memes, memes that surreder our free will. memes with their own meme defences. Complexes of mutually supporting memes with no substance (houses of meme cards)
In short - memes that bring us fear and give us licence to do bad things to people
Rules: accept only memes that are free standing, testable, cause nobody any problems, bring good to people, and most of all that you believe in
A further observation: This personal meme filter is itself a meme - hopefully one that passes its own acceptance rules. Its okay to attack this meme - but hopefully it is strong.
An open source meme: This meme is published under an LGPL licence. Please feel free to build on it, but do share your results with us all. Together maybe we can build a better world.
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