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A bit related - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics What we are seeing with QAnon and others could be basically self-
by Daniel_sk 6y ago
A bit related - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics
What we are seeing with QAnon and others could be basically self-replicating ideas that started at some point and now live the live of their own, without a specific person or group of persons controlling it. Same like religion. Basically a virus (in computer or biological sense) that keeps spreading from mind to mind. Maybe it's a bit too far fetched, but there are a lot of analogies that make sense.
- bsenftner 6y agoI've been calling willed ignorance of truth an intellectual virus for decades. Our civilization has a lot of them, and they are just as deadly as covid-19 - most don't die, but they are transformed into something that lacks secondary considerations, and exhibits gaping holes in their world view.
- hoseja 6y agoEvery nation, every corporation, entire cultures are but living collections of memes with agency. And they don't much care for any one individual host.