Tagged with 'memes'

What memes control your life, or have wormed their way so deeply into your mind that they define who you are? Ever wondered? Ever tried to stand back from the machinery and see yourself as an external observer looking in?

Some examples:

You've seen viral videos. We all have. Right now, they are unpredictable and they evolve right before our eyes. What if there's an evolutionary path for these viral-ideas that sweeps the globe within days or even hours?

Several weeks ago, during an intense entheogenic encounter the phrase "words weave worlds" was auditorily manifested in my ears while a multi-eyed, turquoise and silver ameobic cloud thingy extended glowing tendrils on my right hand (which was holding a pen) and seemed to gently apply pressure to my hand almost coaxing it down to my journal, which was directly below, where i was documenting things

A while ago I lay in my bed, and suddenly
had the thought how few they are.

Brandon Williams Craig pointed me to a book coming out: Re-imagining Change, on story-based activism -- a strategy for movement-based activism.

Not so long ago, I think back in the summer, the Time Monks (Cliff High of Halfpasthuman and George Ure of Urban Survival) mentioned that the predictive linguistics of their web bot project were coming across references to something called the '15 Percenters'.

So, we evidently started out as a social creature that self-organized in to pretty egalitarian communities. Given that fact…just how the heck did we end up here?

Several years ago, I read a book called Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society: The New Science of Memes by Aaron Lynch. That book was to forever change the way I looked at my thoughts, beliefs, etc.

I have done much of my own study and theorizing, and so some of this will differ from Lynch and other memeticists.