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Virus of your brain is the first popular publication specialized in the research of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive research. Memetics is the research of memes, the invisible but very real DNA of human society.
In Virus of your brain, Richard Brodie carefully creates on the task of researchers Richard Dawkins, Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett, and others who have become fascinated with memes and their potential impact on our lives. But Richard should go beyond research and dives in to the meat of the issue: is the emergence of this new science heading to have an impact on our lives like the emergence of atomic physics do in the Cold War? He would say the impact will be at least as great. While atomic bombs influence everybody’s life, trojans of your brain touch lives in a more personal and much more pernicious way.
Mind trojans have already afflicted government authorities, educational systems, and internal cities, leading to some of the most pervasive and frustrating problems of modern culture today: youngsters gangs, the welfare circuit, the deterioration of the general public universities, and ever-growing federal bureaucracy.
Viruses of your brain are not a future worry: they are simply here with us now and are changing to become better and better at their job of infecting us. The recent explosion of mass media and the info superhighway has made the planet earth a prime mating ground for trojans of your brain.
Will there be a mental plague? Will only some of us survive with our free will intact? Richard Brodie weaves along research, ethics, and current situations as he raises these and other very disturbing questions about memes.
