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These things are fascinating to me. They're like mind-viruses...hacking our belief systems so effectively that they spread with amazing speed and ease, and per
by AndrewMoffat 15y ago
These things are fascinating to me. They're like mind-viruses...hacking our belief systems so effectively that they spread with amazing speed and ease, and persist with incredible resilience.
- jerf 15y agoYou'ce going to love the word "meme", then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
- AndrewMoffat 15y agoI had no idea there was so much work on the subject. Thanks!
- count 15y agoAstonishingly not mentioned on Wikipedia, is the novel "Snow Crash", which deals with this exactly as a 'mind virus'. It's also a great work of science fiction in it's own right (predicting Second Life, for example).