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Meme alert! Time Magazine and the Cultural RevolutionPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, August 10, 2005 2:25 PM
An open letter to Time magazine from Danwei reader Hu Yue: Dear Time Magazine, Symantec’s Norton Anti-Meme 2005 Software has detected the presence of the virus/meme CREALTAGOI in the article “Return of the Bourgeois Dogs” in your magazine. Please read the article again and note our virus/meme definition and removal instructions below. ----------------------------------------------------
Massacred in the Cultural Revolution, pet pooches reemerge to signal the triumph of capitalism --------------------------------------------------------------------- VIRUS DEFINITION: CREALTAGOI (AKA, “Cultural Revolution ended a long time ago, get over it.”) This virus-meme is especially virulent and considered to be dangerous to accurate reporting. COMMON SPECIMENS OF CREALTAGOI-GENERATED SUBHEDS: SUSPECT PHRASES: REMOVAL INSTRUCTIONS: 2. Count the number of years since 1976. (Yes, 2000 counts as an actual year. Don’t get confused by all the zeroes) 3. Take a deep breath. Get over it. Let it go. See if you could perhaps try comparing 2005 to 2000. Let the Cultural Revolution be. (Unless you can actually afford the wordcount and depth to somehow get us from the CR to now in a meaningful way that neither distorts the CR nor distorts the present.) Yes, a lot has indeed happened since the Civil War, the last Ice Age and the Big Bang. It will be okay. Things do change. And they certainly didn't stop or start changing in 1976. Sincerely Yours, |
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