Memes
HEAD - Document Start Point! CHAPTER 1 - The Idea that an Idea can have a Life of it's Own
 | 1.1 - Meme is | 1.1.1 - the cultural equevalent of a biological gene. |
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 | 1.2 - Memeplexes - Collections(Groups,Chromosomes) of Memes | 1.2.1 - Spread On Own, Often Against Creator's Wish So | 1.2.1.1 - Classified Info, Secrets, Discoveries |
 | 1.2.1.2 - Songs (mp3s), Viral Video Clips, Email Forwards, Chain Letters, Movies (mpgs) | 1.2.1.2.1 - Fat Kid with Sword |
 | 1.2.1.2.2 - Breakup Message on Lehigh Voicemail System |
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| CHAPTER 2 - Examples of Memes
 | 2.1 - Beethoven's Fifth - the first 4 notes. |
 | 2.2 - Pardon me, do you happen to have any Grey Poupon? | CHAPTER 3 - The Spread of a Meme CHAPTER 4 - Parents Passing on Memes
 | 4.1 - Competition between memes of parents for the new flesh | 4.1.1 - Dissagreements Between Parenting Styles |
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 | 4.2 - Why Abuse Vistims become Abusers Themselves | CHAPTER 5 - Memes as Organisms
 | 5.1 - Reproduction | CHAPTER 6 - Memes Require Hosts
 | 6.1 - Memes may Reconfigure a Hosts's Brain and/or Mind | 6.1.1 - Memes can to Increase their Hosts' Controlability by Present Memes |
 | 6.1.2 - Memes can to Increase their Hosts' Susceptability to Additional Memes |
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 | 6.2 - May Negatively Affect Host |
 | 6.3 - Viruses and Other Parasites Require a Host to Live a Portion of Their Life-Cycle or to Reproduce |
 | 6.4 - Next step for a meme after descruction of host | CHAPTER 7 - Memes can Combine within Hosts CHAPTER 8 - Meme Evolution
 | 8.1 - Variation | 8.1.1 - Mutation |
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 | 8.2 - Competition |
 | 8.3 - Selection |
 | 8.4 - Inheritance | CHAPTER 9 - Human Acquisition of Memes OR Meme Acquisition of Humans
 | 9.1 - Children are Input Recording Machines and are Gullible | ( P1 ) Massive amounts of culture must be acquired by children. Often, certain important facts are even only precented once to a child yet they remember. All this is possible because of a perfect memetic duplication system within every human. The problem with this perfect duplication is that it also duplicates harmful and negative memes just like DNA transcriptase will transcribe whatever is there, whatever the origional source. |
 | 9.1.1 - Fairy Tales, Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy |
 | 9.1.2 - Peer Pressure to Conform |
| CHAPTER 10 - The Internet as a Means of Meme Transmission
 | 10.1 - The Internet has Become Its Own Entity, it is now Un-Stopable. | 10.1.1 - What's Next? |
| CHAPTER 11 - Lucerferic Forces
 | 11.1 - Lucerferic spirits seek to "take refuge in a kind of substitute physical body". *(R1)  | ( P2 ) Lucerferic spirits seek to make alliance with a human that has reached a threshold level of psychic development. They require us as grounds for their own further development. *(R2) |
| Chapter References: * R1 - Paradise Lost * R2 - 2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl : Page 2012 CHAPTER 12 - Culture
 | 12.1 - Sagas, Myths, Stories, Legends |
 | 12.2 - Urban Legends |
 | 12.3 - Festivals, Celebrations, Hollidays |
 | 12.4 - Each City is Like a Meme | 12.4.1 - They have 'Lovers', Fanatics, etc. |
| CHAPTER 13 - Religion
 | 13.1 - Faith 'Holder' | 13.1.1 - Don't Question Anything. Faith is Good. The Less Evidince for Faith the more Virtuous it is even! | ( P3 ) The Mystery is sacred. |
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 | 13.1.2 - Once Faither Precept is Accepted, it is Self-Confirming |
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 | 13.2 - Religion is a Memeplex which includes Memes of Intellegent Design. |
 | 13.3 - Exorcism |
 | 13.4 - Cults | CHAPTER 14 - Corporate Culture CHAPTER 15 - Greatful Dead
 | 15.1 - Shows, Albums, & Songs | CHAPTER 16 - Star Trek & Star Wars CHAPTER 17 - Spring Break CHAPTER 18 - Sex CHAPTER 19 - Prostitution CHAPTER 20 - Pants Leg Rolling CHAPTER 21 - Tattoos CHAPTER 22 - Marti Gras CHAPTER 23 - Curses
 | 23.1 - Fuck You, You Fucking Ass-Hole! | CHAPTER 24 - Criminal Memes
 | 24.1 - Gypsies |
Reference Sources 1: 2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pinckbeck, Daniel - ISBN:978-1-58542-592-1 2: Paradise Lost, Milton - ISBN:
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