I first discovered Susan Blackmore's work last March from this here at HN: NASA's free history e-book collection (nasa.gov)[1] Scanning this awesome collection

I first discovered Susan Blackmore's work last March from this here at HN: NASA's free history e-book collection (nasa.gov)[1] Scanning this awesome collection of publications I found, Susan Blackmore. “Dangerous Memes; or, What the Pandorans Let Loose” (Cosmos & Culture [2] p297) The ideas discussed in the essay could not have found me at a better time--2020's COVID disinformation, Fake News, Q and on and on. I'm not an anthropologist, nor in any way invested in anthropological orthodoxy. I simply find the idea of memetics useful for identifying and describing behaviors and cultural products in new ways. I frequently listen to NPR programs such as WNYC New York's On The Media[3], who make an effort to explicate news media. And yet I feel the explanations are repetitive, contingent and continue to fall short. Memetics simply acts as another perspective in the vein of what Scott E Page calls "Many Model Thinking[4]--a second opinion to a George Lakoff[5] or other perspectives of the _new normal_ in media[6]--just to offer a few examples. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22718489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22718489 [2]: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/hist_culture_cosmos_detail.html https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/hist_culture_cosmos_deta... [3]: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm [4]: https://hbr.org/2018/11/why-many-model-thinkers-make-better-decisions https://hbr.org/2018/11/why-many-model-thinkers-make-better-... [5]: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/keep-substance-truth https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/keep-subst... [6]: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-2016-12-02 https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-med...