It’s hard to distinguish symbiotic wars from dead antimemes.
I think it is possible to make good use of past antimemes in a way that draws attention to their antimemetic character.
“Tell me,” Wittgenstein’s asked a friend, “why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?” His friend replied, “Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth.” Wittgenstein replied, “Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?”
I think it is possible to make good use of past antimemes in a way that draws attention to their antimemetic character.