another paper
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Memetics
Published
on JENDELA Newspaper, 25 September 2011 with some revision
One day in the end of February, I and my friend went to
post office to send some letters. Halfway through, we were surprised by a man
who sit in front of “Madura” Barber
Shop. He is Father Rector. He didn’t see us,
but we saw him and surprised. We weren’t surprised because he is father rector.
We were surprised because what he did there ; SMOKING. He was smoking in the
public place. Because of that, my friend opened his bag, took a ciggarete, and
smoked. When I asked him why he did that, he just said, “Father Rector is
smoking there, too, dude.
He should stop smoking, so his seminarian like me can stop smoking, too.”
After he said that, I didn’t reply anything. I only realized that in my friend’s mind there are a bad memetics
process.
What’s Memetics?
Memetic is study about ethic[1].
It’s exposing “mem” as a material to
build mental. Just
like genetic exposing gen as a material to build our physic. Mental replication
is an ability which is separating human with another primate. Language,
culture, religion are actually the product of “mem”
replication. It’s just
like gen replication makes a
group of cell
until they can be a body which can reproduce and defence itself.
As a species who fight againts nature for
a long time, the schedule of genetic always bring us to make a strong reaction
againt sex
issue,
food, and dangerous. Together with that schedule, primordial
buttons of
memetics grow up. They are angry, affraid, hungry, and passion. It is exciting to muse that
something that make an information grow, actually not because it’s important or
“not” and
valuable or “not”. But how
much our primordial buttons we
push together.
Mass
media knows
that a siluet of woman’s body can help the distribution of their product, even it hasn’t
connection with woman’s body. They also
can hide bad effects of cigarette in the figure of strong man who travel in the
world. It also happens in the news. The news often makes serious situation in
order to make the people fell dibble and horror. Imagine reporter in the
television reading the news with relax face and said, “Everything is fine.”It
will be boring. It won’t give strong “mem”
which can make that news important.
How
great an urgency is offered, what’s we consume
sometimes isn’t what we need[2].
It reminds me about Masaro Emoto’s research. It’s about how water’s molecule is
broken when hard rock music is being played. And the other way, that molecule
will make a group of hexagon when classic music is being played. It proves that
the good face of the world can repair our body until molecular level, and the
other way something bad, even it has high rating, can make us broke.
The
virus of mind also works by association and rehearsal. Our attitude can be like
our attitude now because what our parents have taught us since we are baby. We
can walk because rehearsal to swing our foot. Patriotism as an ism doesn’t come
spontaneously when we were born. It programmed by rehearsal ; ceremony every
Monday morning. A religion life doesn’t come spontaneously, too. A boy is programmed
from zero by rehearsal and association ; about a gift called heaven, punishment
called hell, and the big boss who more strong than father called God. Memetics
can’t be fight, even we try to fight it, because memetics is a relative theory.
Memetics
as a new theory which explain that situation can give us a new vision to
choose, sort, and stop for a moment from hyperbole information which invasion
our mind. But how can we choose and sort if memetics can’t be fought? I guess,
meditation is a good “dessert” for all of memetics’s process. It’s not because
meditation is a part of “mem” some
religion. But it’s the only way which turn process of invasion “mem” ; silent, calm, watch with no
reaction until we realized[3].
Realized
isn’t the end of the fight. Because fight without wises will bring us to the
useless reaction war. Primordial buttons are not bad forever because actually
it’s our defense system and a pack of our existence. It’s not forever too that
it should be filled and give a reaction, With culture progress and human’s
capacity which are amazing now, we should be restrained our desire –not because
in the name of desire, but for living together, co-existence with all of
creatures, including species. That’s the function of memetics.
Reality
Last
holiday, I saw a family in the cafe. They talk together, eat together, and
laugh together. They are happy as a family. Sometimes, that memory make me ask
myself, if we like to make someone change, why we aren’t start from ourselves ?
May be the only thing that we need is a good memetics program ; talk together,
eat together, and laugh together.
(Hahaha!!! *LOL)
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