The concepts of "top-down" and "bottom-up" competition within the parasite-host system http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/03/29/rspb.2012.0474.full.pdf … are probably useful...
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for understanding competition within the individual-culture system - but competition is more bidirectional in the latter case I think :/
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(Individuals compete with each other within culture, cultural items compete with each other within individual, each tries to modify other)
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As far as I can tell this is why I talk on twitter and stuff
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@sarahdoingthing Actually that's probably hopelessly cryptic. In English: in a hierarchical structure, there's often a hidden symmetry--1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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@sarahdoingthing speaking of bogus mysticism
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