Reading books without first learning about memetics is incredibly dangerous. Without properly understanding the spread and evolution of ideas, you run a near 100% chance of infecting yourself with a memetic hazard. That is to say, you will start believing something harmful.See, ideas are selected for and compete in much the same way as living things. Unlike most life, however, ideas cannot exist on their own. They must parasitize a host to propagate and ensure their continued existence. Thus, ideas that are uniquely effective in steering the behavior of hosts towards the survival of the idea (rather than the host) are the ones that spread and endure. In this way people can become subverted by ideas. Loyal to a force outside of themselves, acting against themselves in service of an informational virus. This is no different from any other virus (or even your own genetics, but that itself could be considered an infohazard).Know the dangers. Immunize yourself.
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>>25010604You sound like someone who just discovered SCP and wants to find it in the real world
It is important to note that, exceptional individuals aside, everyone is infected with memetic viruses to begin with. These viruses are transferred from parent to child, teacher to student, author to reader, peer to peer, from the moment you are born. Fortitude against these ideas is something you have to develop.>>25010610>irrationally dismissiveEver wonder why /x/ schizos believe that shit? Because they fell for memetic hazards. Flat earth, ghosts, bigfoot, aliens, etc. are all examples of memetic hazards. Retarded ideas that infect people and cause them to think and act in self-destructive ways.>>25010620This really has nothing to do with SCP.
How infohazardous are these concepts?
>>25010629>Flat earth, ghosts, bigfoot, aliens, etc. are all examples of memetic hazards.Funny enough memetics is on that list.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_characterized_as_pseudoscience
>>25010610>>25010620Crazy retarded.>>25010656Because one guy said so in a book about how everything he doesn't like is pseudoscience. A guy with a degree in psychology and history.Meanwhile multiple actual credentialed scientists who founded entire fields say it's useful.
I agree. Unfortunately, I have been infected by the BBC parasite. I love BBC
>>25010650not gonna read but they all seem sufficiently retarded>>25010658By god man, snap out of it! You need to stop paying your telly license.
>>25010629ok, retard. use your superior knowledge of idea transmission to implant this belief in my head.
>>25010700I've been gradually conditioning you for years. The trick is to never mention what I actually want to transmit so the appropriate defences don't go up. It all lead to this moment, where you willingly invite the idea in like a vampire. You won't accept it right away, it will marinade in your subconscious for weeks and fade until I reinforce it at least two more times with pauses between. I don't even have to actually explain the idea.
>>25010604OP is right, free yourselves anons, the only cure is injecting heroin and fucking moroccan boys, this was telepathically communicated to me by wilhem reich's ghost under orgone-induced sex-trance
>>25010700I guarantee that you believe something retarded and self-destructive right now
>>25010604>See, ideas are selected for and compete in much the same way as living thingsWhat is the genetic code for ideas?
>>25011663The idea itself is the genetic code. The organism is uses to spread itself is (you).
>>25010604You have infected me with the memetic idea that you are a pseud fag. It's resistant to all known counter memes and extremely virulent.
>>25011676Doesn't seem very analogous to me. We choose whether to spread or replicate or modify ideas, in nature the code just is what it is.
>>25011704>We choose whether to spread or replicate or modify ideas,That's where you're wrong kiddo.
>>25011704You choose whether to reproduce or not.
>>25011717A gene can't enter my body and then my body or even the other genes decide if it's going to be accepted or spread or not.>>25011718I didn't choose this life :(But seriously if you do reproduce, you don't choose which genes to pass on. So it's not analogous.
>>25011704>>25011733>I choose to spread and replicate ideassure, same way your cells choose to spread and replicate viruses when infectedsame way an animal infected with a parasite chooses to spread and replicate the parasite
>>25011742There's no choice in the cellular realm, it's either the virus infects or it cannot. I can read about an idea and evaluate it, and take it in in part or in whole or not at all. Completely different thing, the cell cannot take in just one gene from the virus and say this is good but the rest is trash.
>>25011760There is no choice in the informational realm. Either the idea infects, or it cannot.>what is mutationFigure it out.
>>25010604true. the only cure is philosophy.
>>25011784There is choice. The idea may enter your mind but then you choose what to do with it, it can be effectively discarded and eventually forgotten. You consciously regulate how much you spread it, or what parts.
>>25010604>bertrand russell's even dumber protegeshan't be reading
>>25011839You don't choose what to believe.
The Selfish Gene is unironically the most important text written within the last millennium at least.Once you understand genetics you realize that yes the concepts therein basically dictate and control everything in existence. Genetics are reality to put it simply.Understanding genetics is basically like unlocking the matrix and if you as an ordinary person could actually make use of this knowledge it would have been outlawed and buried long ago.I suspect people will still attempt to ban the study of genetics at some point.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX7PdJIGiCw
>>25011870Maybe you don't
>>25010604As someone who actually read The Selfish Gene, I have to say I was unimpressed.He devotes ONE whole chapter to explaining what memes are and that's it.The rest of the book is spent describing his theory that we are nothing more than "survival machines" piloted by genes that want above all else to spread themselves.Which is a compelling idea but I'm not entirely convinced that it's the sole driver of human behavior.Tl;dr it doesn't talk about memes as much as it's made out to be so don't go in expecting him to talk much about them if you haven't read the book yet
>>25012189>I'm not entirely convinced that it's the sole driver of human behaviorDoes Dawkins say that?
>>25010604trvth nvkeMorality, religion, god, rights, society, justice, the state, nations, property, etc. are among the most successful mind viruses.All the greatest minds endeavor to shake off these harmful ideas, though of course not all are successful.
metal gear rising did it better
>>25012189Try >Susan Blackmore, The Meme Machine, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999>The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think - Robert Aunger
>>25010604Memes are a meme.
>>25010604>memesmateralist babble
>>25011925""""Genetics"""" is pseudoscience and undergoing numerous paradigm shifts. Dawkins only impresses malleable minds.
