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Originally Posted by redpoint5

In that way, people don't have ideas, but ideas have people.

The Selfish Meme - IEEE Spectrum
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—Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene. At the end of his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, geneticist Richard Dawkins proposed the idea of the meme, which he described as "a unit of cultural transmission ...

What's in a Meme? | Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason ...
https://richarddawkins.net › 2014 › 02 › whats-in-a-meme
The meme first appeared in Richard Dawkins' first book, "The Selfish Gene" (1976), and was an attempt to understand why some behaviours, from an evolutionary perspective, seemed to make no sense but, somehow or other, were found to be very common in human societies.

Internet offers a coping mechanism: https://knowyourmeme.com/