Memetic
Engineering
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Contributory or Required
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Description:
In a sense, this
technology could be called "Propaganda", except that it is more
potentially powerful than any propaganda operation in
history. It is intended to create new ideas that will then
take on a life of their own, expanding and controling larger groups far
more effectively than a central authority might be able to do.
Memetic Engineering is the technology of creating
new memes from scratch in order to control a population properly.
It relies on a database of memes from the Memeculture (dev) phase, but
can still create new memes without that. The memes created could
be religions or cults or philosophies, or they could be memes so subtle
that the people they are acting on never even notice them.
Improved Memetic Engineering (dev) allows the
creation of more complex memes to control more diverse and more willful
populations. This primarily allows a high degree of control to be
maintained in a larger population without the use of authoritarian
governmental techniques.