Saturday, July 25, 2015

What is meme warfare?

What is meme warfare?

You can learn anything there is to know from observing nature.

There is a kind of wasp that injects a venom into its victim. It does not kill the victim outright, but paralyzes it, so it can parasitize the victim without spoiling it.

There is another type of wasp that has a venom that zombifies the victim, causing its victim to follow wherever the wasp takes it. The wasp typically leads the victim into a tomb before laying an egg on it that will hatch into a larva that will slowly devour the host alive. The host, though, will not complain or even try to escape, because the venom works on its central nervous system. It will sit there, unable to move, watching its body being devoured, day by day, absolutely helplessly.

Now...

Imagine a super-wasp that has a venom that is so powerful that it not only zombifies the victim, but causes that victim to manufacture more of the same venom and then inject it into its fellows, even its own offspring. The venom prevents the victim from knowing about the venom or the parasite by attacking the higher functions of the central nervous system. The venom makes the victims to look the other away when their fellows are feasted upon, and instead of helping them, they redouble their efforts to distribute more venom, because they see the venom as the solution instead of the disease. After a couple of generations, the entire species is enslaved.

That is what meme warfare is.