Winning the Meme Wars

By | October 3, 2006
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InstaPundit gives me the idea that if the West really wants to get the upper hand in its meme war with radical Islam, we need to package our memes with a snappy catch-phrase. Glenn’s borrowed tagline…

The one meme to have when you’re having more than one

…might work, but here are some alternatives:

From the Land of Sky Blue Waters come the memes refreshing…

Western memes tast great. No, they’re less filling. No, they tast great. No, less filling! No, taste great! (On second thought, the argumentative nature of this one might be problematic.)

Religious tolerance — The King of Memes.

Here’s to good friends; tonight is kind of special. The memes we pour must say something more, somehow. So tonight (tonight) let it be Western memes.

Give that meme a blue ribbon.

And we can back all this up by pointing out that Western memes are beechwood aged and made with pure rocky mountain spring and/or artesian well water. Plus, these are the memes that made Milwaukee famous. I mean come on, extremists…

WASSUP???

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  • http://www.liftport.com/progress/wp bdunbar

    A tagline

    The West – we’re going to the stars.

  • https://www.blog.speculist.com Stephen Gordon

    Glenn has used the last thirty years of beer history as an illustration of how and why most things are getting better all the time.

    I wish I had a cite for this – it was originally a tech central station article I believe – but he also used this illustration in his book Army of Davids.

    Anyway, In the 70′s mass produced beer was pretty lousy. In fact, it was a watered down swill. But beer drinkers put up with it because there were few alternatives. Imported beer was expensive and sometimes was stale by the time it reached the consumers. And the smaller domestic brewers had not survived Prohibition.

    This status quo was challeged first by the home brewers. Then came the microbreweries.

    The success of those operations forced the big brewers to get better. So wether you buy from a larger brewer, a microbrewer or even brew it yourself, you are likely to have a better beer than was generally available in the mid 70s.

    Freedom brings the “hassle” of choices, but having choices means that our options generally improve.

    So maybe our catch phrase should be something like…

    “For a good beer, call Lady Liberty at 555-1776.”

  • Gramarye

    There is absolutely no reason for me to be laughing at these, but somehow I am. Oh, a few more:

    For a great meme that won’t fill you up and never lets you down, make it a Western meme!

    And by far the best of them all:

    WEST
    ERRRRRRN
    MEEEEEEEEME!

  • http://transsurvivalist.blogspot.com AdvancedAtheist

    J.K. Rowling may have stumbled onto a way to interfere with the normal transmission of parental memes into children’s brains when she invented Harry Potter. I’ve noticed that children become obsessed with these increasingly lengthy novels even against their parents’ wishes, hence the christian fundamentalist parents who complain about the franchise. We just need to figure out how to introduce something like Harry Potter into the Muslim world to interfere with the propagation of Islamic memes.