This essay outlines the basic principles of memetics as they apply to a political analysis of modern international corporate capitalism. Memetics is a set of conjectures about the evolution of ideas as a purely mechanical phenomenon, driven by natural selection. I take this notion very literally and propose very specific interpretations on the importance of modern corporations? acquisition of genetic copyrights and their commodification. I propose that corporations are life forms whose interests and capability are both different from, and more powerful, than humanity?s. Seen through this lens, we live in a transformitive era; an era where natural organic biological evolution is about to be supplanted by memetic corporate evolution. The conclusions of such an analysis bode poorly for humanity as the dominant species in the biosphere of our planet. It is the corporations who will ultimately inherit the earth and transform the biosphere of our planet in a manner that maximizes their own evolutionary prosperity.

Security Policy Group International

Hegemony is a term used with increasing frequency in the post-Cold War information age. Tied to globalism, neocolonialism and the perception of the United States as the sole superpower, it has been one of the analytical tools used to explain the “New World Order” that George Bush Sr. trumpeted. Using hegemony as means to analyze the world also reveals an unease with these new relationships. While we very well may be right to be uneasy about the state of the world, is the hegemony paradigm capable of providing us with the analysis and tools necessary to tackle these issues? The hegemony paradigm does offer the benefit of simplifying a bewildering world. While this simplicity may provide an effective propaganda device for various rebellions, I will argue that it does not provide a useful set of analytical tools, nor ultimately does it provide the hope of a better world it wishes to engender.

...However, if we return to the paradigm we have been sketching out, we can see that power becomes more problematic in that the act of creating meaning always involves a shutting off of some possibilities and the suppression of some individuals or groups. This occurs in all communities. Part of what defines people as part of a community is what is not part of the community. That definition, that creation of meaning is power and it is wielded at all levels and throughout all communities. This leads to the paradoxical situation of having to oppose hegemony with hegemony.

From The Security Policy Group International via abuddhas memes

Barry Chamish is convinced that Shimon Peres, Israel’s wily old statesman, ordered the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, back in 1995, in collaboration with the French. He points to apparent tampering with evidence. The blood-stained song sheet in Mr. Rabin’s pocket lost its bullet hole between the night of the murder and the present. The murderer, Yigal Amir, should have been immediately recognized by Rabin’s bodyguards. He has publicly attacked his query before. Israel’s fierce and fearsome internal security service, the Shabak, had moles and agents provocateurs among the plotters. Chamish published a book about the affair. He travels and lectures widely, presumably for a fee. Chamish’s paranoia-larded prose is not unique. The transcripts of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s inquisitions are no less outlandish. But it was the murder of John F. Kennedy, America’s youthful president, that ushered in a golden age of conspiracy theories.

Global Politician via The Daily Grail

Washington—President Bush’s budget would keep federal deficits over $200 billion annually over the next decade, Congress’ top budget analyst said Friday in a report raising doubts about White House efforts to contain the shortfalls.

Salon

The Senate Judiciary Committee—propelled by a unified Republican majority and with little public debate—voted 12 to 5 yesterday to approve legislation backed by the credit card industry and opposed by consumer groups that would make it harder for consumers to wipe out debt through bankruptcy.

Washington Post

There are headlines all over the news today that experts are now claiming the dollar?s role is secure, all doing damage control over Chinese Economist Fan Gang?s statements earlier in the week that the US dollar was no longer seen as a stable currency.

There is much evidence of the severe decline of the American dollar and American economy. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft Corp and the world’s richest man, is expecting the dollar to fall further while China continues its phenomenal growth.

GNN