When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my b…

Richard Dawkins
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When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2016). The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition, p.213, Oxford University Press
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