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Decoding the Gurus

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The Idea of Parasitic Ideas

i argued that humans suffer not only from actual brain worms in the same way that the mouse does, but we suffer from another class of idea, pathagans. So everything from catchy tunes to click bat to slogan type stuff, or conspiracy theories, can be thought of as meams. We are being paracitically infected by ideas that are using up humans for their own benefit. Buto course, they're noly aliveye bt, but that's all contained in the original idea of meams, right? Which don't necessarily have the interests of theaat of the believer. Ye mind. Vorriss, yes.

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