Is There a Memetic Replicator That Will Save Us?

Capitalism and democracy are optimizing for a proxy of making us happy but that proxy can easily get uncoupled from the original goal chain letters urban legends propaganda and viral marketing are all examples of memes that don't satisfy our explicit values true and useful but are sufficiently memetically virulent that they spread anyway. imagine a country full of bio-weapon labs where people toil day and night to invent new infectious agents you'd expect things to start going bad pretty quickly well we have about a zillion think tanks researching new and better forms of propaganda and we have constitutionally protected freedom of speech and we have the internet so we're kind of screwed mola whose name is the mind there are some scenarios in