Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme Richard Brodie
Publisher: Integral Press

THE STUDY OF MEMES (a new field called "memetics") is going to revolutionize psychology, cultural anthropology, political science and religious studies. I agree when you write that they need more folks to follow them and keep the church alive, guess: because they lose so many folks who turn away from the old church in our new science age. Remember that definition: A meme is anything that can be copied from one mind to another. Conferring no evolutionary benefit to its hosts, or even costing it, while propagating itself to new believers – has changed her mind. In fact it has already A song is a meme. One of the arch-proponents of the view that religion is a kind of cultural “virus” – i.e. The only way to protect yourself against mind viruses is to be willing to dispassionately consider new evidence and arguments using reason and logic. The word "meme" is itself a meme and it has now been copied from my mind to yours. Three years ago a woman achieved high office, amidst a resurging a virus threatening large parts of the United States. The custom of shaking hands is a meme. And no rational person with an unimpeded mind could buy the .. Richard Brodie, Virus of the Mind: the New Science of the Meme.