Force Not Required

Alistair Young

May 5, 2021

“Always remember: memetics is no more and no less than the science of ideas. Applied memetics, therefore, is no more and no less than advanced persuasion. Memetics cannot impose ways of thought. Memetics alone cannot correct biases, or determine truth, or override the will. And no memetic technology can force someone to believe anything.”

– The Iron Rule of Memetics, Acad. Lí Amarens

“Holy fire-spitting crapsticks, is there anything these morons won’t believe?”

– Alseyn’s Corollary

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Memetic Waste Disposal

[Based, obviously, upon this.] This inscription is a warning and a safeguard. Pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a wise culture. Though we may have failed, we wish for you to succeed. This place is not a place of honor.

Sur-Dodeciad Parts in Approximate Formation: The Empire from Outside

Vaccination

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No discussion of approaches to gender in the Associated Worlds would be complete without mention of the peculiar customs of the mourcalt of the Trailing Assembly. The mourcalt‘s biology gave them an exceptional degree of sexual dimorphism, which is typically correlated with strong gender archetypes, as indeed it was

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From: Tiryns Anandonos (AIB) To: Academician Iliys Roquentius; Academician Meris Tarisia Subject: Incident 7922/0011867 Gentlesophs, It is certainly the case that research into self-concealing patterns of information (so-called cryptomemes) is important, as is research into their applicability to and existence in the living world. This is only the more

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Memetic Waste Disposal

Vaccination

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