#societal evolution

"Growing up, I was an unapologetic dog person. That remains true even today, but I’m more willing to admit that cats are pretty cool too. Sure, they’re mercurial and fiercely independent, but they’re warm, fuzzy, and cute, and after a certain point, that’s all that matters in the pet department. So, yes. Cats aren’t bad. But I’ve always wondered how we managed to get them out of the wild and into our homes in the first place. While we don’t have definitive answers to that question, archeologists have made some conjectures that attempt to answer it."

Insight Wednesday 5 February 2020: The Turbulent Twenties

What a gene is to biology, a meme is to ideology... Madonna is a meme, Catholicism is a meme, Marxism is a meme, yellow sweaters are a meme... rainbow-colored dreadlocks are a meme. Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate—just like genes replicate, and infect, and move into the organism of society. And, believing as I do that society operates on a kind of biological economy, then I believe these memes are the key to societal evolution ["Memes, Drugs, and Community"].