Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
A Reference, Philosophy, Sociology book. Dan Quayle, mutating the memes in the United Negro College Funds motto, A mind is a terrible thing...
Virus of the Mind is the first popular book devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science. Memetics is the science of memes, the invisible but very real DNA of human society.In Virus of the Mind, Richard Brodie carefully builds on the work of scientists Richard Dawkins, Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett, and others who have become fascinated with memes and their potential impact on our lives. But Richard goes beyond science and dives into the meat of the...
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How about this one: you are simply a distinctiona memeinvented because it was convenient to talk about the parts of the universe that feel pain when hit with a hammer. To the universe, theres no you . . . or human beings or giraffes or solar systems or galaxies. All those are human-invented distinctions. They are all memes. Richard Brodie, Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme // If you listen repeatedly to religious speech, after enough repetitions you will actually begin to notice God and His works where there was just chaotic life going on before. What was formerly chance becomes a miracle. What was pain is now karma. What was human nature is now sin. And regardless of whether these religious memes are presented as Truth or as allegorical mythology, youre conditioned just the same. Richard Brodie, Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme // stressful year after year? One reason is the ever-evolving army of mind viruses, taking over a greater and greater Richard Brodie, Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme //
English starts hereDon't you wonder why people would love, with all their hearts, to tie bombs to their bodies and explode themselves away (presumably to Heaven, I'd rather think to Hell), taking other people away with them? That's the problem with memes: these things so 'abstract' fill your mind and mine, telling us what to do, in... This is a good book for people who want to understand memes and memetics better, but want it to be easily understandable. It was a little repetitive and slow for my taste, but managed to hold my interest all the way through. Good for the average, intellectually curious type. The author is fond of using italics and boxes for emphasis,... Oh this is a bad book. He does say in the introduction '...even reading these words might make you angry...'. This was true for the following 200 pages. I don't normally finish things I don't like. But as it was short I guess I wanted to get to the end to see if my anger was justified. I could go on about what's wrong with it, but I'll...
