Designer VS Cultural Memes

At this point I want to introduce a distinction between mind viruses that arose spontaneously and ones that were invented by human consciousness. I'll call the naturally arising ones cultural viruses and the human-crafted ones designer viruses. A designer virus is carefully crafted to infect people with a set of memes that influence them to spread the virus throughout the population. Designer viruses and cultural viruses can be equally damaging to your pursuit of happiness, although for many...