I read a book description [0] recently about “anti-memetics” or anti-memes, ideas that don’t want to spread. Stuff like taboo secrets. Anti-natalism seems anti

I read a book description [0] recently about “anti-memetics” or anti-memes, ideas that don’t want to spread. Stuff like taboo secrets. Anti-natalism seems anti-memetic because the adherents don’t reproduce enough to carry on these serious philosophies to their belief. It makes me think about how these ideas end up spreading anyway. So it could be so good that it convinces people. Or there could be false adherents. There’s some religions that don’t allow sex (eg, Shakers [1]) and it’s curious to me that they still exist since they only grow through converts with each member dying off and rarely reproducing. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54870256 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54870256 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers