Is There a Double Contagion?

"There's actually a double contagion. There's first, there's the contagion of a memetic desire," he says. "And then there's a secondary type of contagion where all the people get together and decide that this particular victim is the problem" In so doing, they take upon themselves the role of the gods, because they are in the position,. They divinize themselves because they are meeting out judgment; it's another archaic form of religion.