Possibly you can exploit the Central Category Fallacy. You copy the whole memeplex X, change what you want and declare it to be an entirely different thing, with its own name, ideology, etc. If someone challenges you that it is the same thing as X, you just point to the different things and say “See? Xers believe this and that, but I most emphatically DON’T!” If someone is interested/pedantic enough to point out the similarities, you can concede that sometimes Xers think like you do. Granted, screening for pattern matching means also no Halo Effect from X-ers and their friends.
Finding catchy names for ideologies isn’t easy, but the bigger problem is that people will think “You’re an Xer” much more often than they’ll explicitly accuse you of being an Xer. Although I suppose you could continuously say “I’m not an Xer, but I think this idea they have is right”.
I guess that without proper social experiments it’s hard to tell, but I feel that people rarely take the time to properly distinguish memeplexes based on their memetic content: they rely much more on things like faces, group associations, catchy names, etc. Monkey social stuff, you know. I feel that you can either optimize for distinguished appearance, or arguing about the content of your memeplex of choice. I don’t see the second working well to do the first job.
And on a pop-Kantian note, this would be a good strategy to universalize since an environment with more ideological splinter groups that are mutually distinguished from each other would probably be more intellectually healthy than the current climate.
Possibly you can exploit the Central Category Fallacy. You copy the whole memeplex X, change what you want and declare it to be an entirely different thing, with its own name, ideology, etc.
If someone challenges you that it is the same thing as X, you just point to the different things and say “See? Xers believe this and that, but I most emphatically DON’T!”
If someone is interested/pedantic enough to point out the similarities, you can concede that sometimes Xers think like you do. Granted, screening for pattern matching means also no Halo Effect from X-ers and their friends.
Finding catchy names for ideologies isn’t easy, but the bigger problem is that people will think “You’re an Xer” much more often than they’ll explicitly accuse you of being an Xer. Although I suppose you could continuously say “I’m not an Xer, but I think this idea they have is right”.
I guess that without proper social experiments it’s hard to tell, but I feel that people rarely take the time to properly distinguish memeplexes based on their memetic content: they rely much more on things like faces, group associations, catchy names, etc. Monkey social stuff, you know.
I feel that you can either optimize for distinguished appearance, or arguing about the content of your memeplex of choice. I don’t see the second working well to do the first job.
And on a pop-Kantian note, this would be a good strategy to universalize since an environment with more ideological splinter groups that are mutually distinguished from each other would probably be more intellectually healthy than the current climate.