Principia Memetica
1. If a meme can spread, it will spread.
2. If a meme can use you, it will use you.
3. We are hosts for memes.
4. Memes don't care for right or wrong.
5. Memes don't care for truth or false.
6. Most memes are parasites without benefits.
7. Evolution is war. War is evolution.
Extra References
Memetic lexicon:
- host (carrier) - A succesfully infected individual
- meme - A contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting hosts and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern
- infection - Succesful encoding of a meme in an individual
- auto-toxic (self-damaging memes) - Memes that damage the hosts, or are self-limiting
- exo-toxic (damaging memes) - Memes dangerous to others
- bait/hook - A part of the meme package that promises benefit for the host (e.g. heaven for religions)
- threat - A part of a meme that encourages adherence and discourages mis-replication
- belief-space - The limited space where memes compete for attention
- censorship - Any attempt to limit the spread of a meme
- co-meme - A meme that co-evolved alongside another
- dormant - Memes without hosts, awaiting reactivation (for instance written down)
- earworm - A tune or melody that is infectious
- ideosphere - The realm of possible memetic evolution
- memetic immunity / meme-allergy - Immunity or resistance to some memes
- immuno-depressant - Anything that reduces a person's memetic immunity
- immuno-meme (vaccime) - Any meta-meme that can confer resistance or immunity to other memes
- internet meme - A digitally hosted meme, that is being spread by hosts interacting on the internet
- infection strategy - Any memetic strategy that encourages infection of a host
- meme medium - The medium through which memes are propagated
- meme allergy - An extreme reaction to a particular set of memes by a host of another meme
- meme-complex (meme package) - A collection of mutually-assisting memes that are sustaining one another and usually are related and together
- memebot - A host whose entire life is subordinated to the propagation of the meme, robotically, at any opportunity.
- memeoid - A host whose behavior is basically driven by the meme, even at the expense of his or other hosts survival
- meme pool - the full diversity of memes accessible to a culture
- memetic - related to memes
- memetic drift - Accumulated mis-replications
- memetic engineer - Someone that creates memes with the purpose of using them to alter others behavior
- memeticist - One that studies memetics, or a memetic engineer
- memotype - The information content of a meme or similar memes to it
- sociotype - The expression of a memotype (like Church is for religion)
- meta-meme - A meme about memes
- The Meta Meme - This concept of memes
- mimicry - A strategy that some memes use, by imitating another successful meme
- replication strategy - Any strategy a meme uses to make hosts propagate it
- retromeme - A meme that tries to infiltrate into an existing meme package
- tolerance - A meta-meme that confers resistance to a wide variety of memes
- vector - Medium, method or vehicle that transmits memes
- identity - A meme that is central to a hosts behavior, actions and beliefs
- control memes - The memes that are driving action on a host
- ego - A meme that refers to the host, that has infected the host (or what the host believes is him)
- viral - A critical mass of replication reached by a successful meme
- cult - A community of membots or memeoids that synergistically work for the purposes of the meme
- replicator - Any pattern that can be propagated through replication
Further related meta-meme rabbit holes:
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