Think of a community as a viral meme. The idea of making art together, the idea of a PhD seminar. You need to have a “patient zero” who can pass the meme on. De

Think of a community as a viral meme. The idea of making art together, the idea of a PhD seminar. You need to have a “patient zero” who can pass the meme on. Depending on the virality of the meme and the number of contacts, the meme either gets passed on enough that the people being “cured” are replaced or there is a need tor a persistent source of (re)infection in the form of the originator of the meme.