We are in the miasma theory stage of culture war. Nobody has yet figured out the idea of meme-germs being carried by rats and bats and stuff living in sewers.
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I’m hesitant to inform everyone that DMT-smoking Burning Man Hippies have been having serious conversations about this stuff for years
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So have lots of other groups. I'm skeptical that that particular group has come up with anything very bright to say about it. It's a crowd notable for self-congratulation rather than insight, with or without nootropic assistance.
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analogy only goes so far. Rats & bats were easier to combat because unlike ideas & expression, cultures dealing with the plague didn't have values establishing rights of any animal to spread any pathogen anywhere, as we do with speech & ideas
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just wait till we get to microbiome theory stage and you realize the meme-germs are just part of an ecosystem that is more or less robust
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Eliminate large swaths of injustice (sanitation infrastructure), cultivate compassion and communication techniques (personal hygiene), take seriously how profit motives of media/internet companies end up distorting human interactions (contagion research)
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