Playing tai chi with memetic warfare - by Nadia
I was motivated to write Antimemetics in part because I felt dissatisfied with how we’ve unthinkingly glommed onto memetic warfare as a terminal explanation for why people do what they do.
I was motivated to write Antimemetics in part because I felt dissatisfied with how we’ve unthinkingly glommed onto memetic warfare as a terminal explanation for why people do what they do. Memes and mimicry might explain some of our behavior today, but they aren’t an excuse to roll over and accept things exactly as they are. This seems like a profoundly defeatist way for us to justify our worst behavior. Aren't we humans creative creatures, blessed with the ability to design our way out of even the most hopeless situations? I recently participated in a panel in San Francisco about how new…
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