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>Wait for my essay "The Me Me Meme and the Cult of Post-Enlightenment
>Individuation"
>Jeremy
>
>
The "me meme" is not just a meme. It is a hardwired part of the brain that
can be disabled with brain damage. It is essential to the "defense of
territory reflex," which is also a hardwired section of the brain. Memes
may be able to overcome the bad consequences of these inherited features,
but they are the battlefield on which the gene/meme war is being fought.
Treating them as memes is like treating the flue with antibiotics. The
medicine you are prescribing will have no effect on the area being treated.
Grant
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