• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You made me look up the origin of the word meme

    “When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme’s propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.” Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976