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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by ehsankia on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:25PM (#25665055)
It's honestly not too different than the pandemic we are living through. But instead of a biological virus, it's more of a thought virus. There's a lot of discussion in this thread about whether information should be more or less open, but if anything I think this past few years has shown how ideas such as antivaxx, antimask and election fraud can spread extremely effectively online and infiltrate millions of minds. Reminds me a bit of CGPGrey's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by cercatrova on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:21AM (#25667871)
Dawkins coined meme to mean just such a cultural piece of information that disseminates. Just as a gene wants to get to as many people as possible (ie natural, sexual selection) so too do ideas. In this case, the internet has vastly sped it up such that ideas can travel instantaneously.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by ehsankia on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:04PM (#25675622)
It's not only that that ideas travel, but also how they evolve and adapt like a virus to be in the most potent and engaging version, not too dissimilar from natural selection. It also is true that they are much easier to spread than to cure (debunk).
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by kazinator on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:26AM (#25667894)
Unfortunately, bad ideas also, like that meme should refer to a low-effort combination of some stock picture and some caption conveying puerile humor or a subcultural circle jerk.
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