Essay on Thought Contagion

Think about what this means to you next time you think a certain way, or think at all, and you'll discover where you're going. Odds are you won't like the prospect. And when you say 'this isn't so bad, it still is pretty good for the average person, and getting better', go pick up a copy of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and ask yourself if that wouldn't be so bad either. And then smack yourself in the face.
*The vMEME term is an effort to show the connection between (a) the ideas carried in memes and (b) the underlying 'V'alue Systems (better called valuing systems), thinking, worldviews, coping systems, Spiral colors, or what Dr. Clare W. Graves' also called levels of psychological existence. Some confuse the two domains by calling the content (memes) and the containers (vMEMEs) by the same name, an approach which dilutes and muddles the significance of both.
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