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Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreeding— a conical mass of threads, expanding into the future from the apex of their common birthplace. Eventually, of course, they'd wither and die; the cone would simply dissipate at its wide end, its permutations senescent and exhausted. There were exceptions, of course. Every now and then a single thread persisted, grew thick and gnarled and unkillable: conspiracy theories and urban legends, the hooks embedded in popular songs, the comforting Easter-bunny lies of religious doctrine. These were the memes: viral concepts, infections of conscious thought. Some flared and died like mayflies. Others lasted a thousand years or more, tricked billions into the endless propagation of parasitic half-truths.


Peter Watts


#pith #religion #rumor-cycles #snark #urban-legends

Braccas meas vescimini!" I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!


Rick Riordan


#latin #percy-jackson #eating

Merlin's pants!


J.K. Rowling


#humorous #death






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