Warning: Toxic Politics

I’ve just been reading Susan Blackmore’s The Meme Machine, which is an excellent introduction to memetics. Like genes, memes have no life of their own, but treating them as if they do can provide a useful perspective for understanding how they spread and change. Since I’m rather worried about how it seems to be getting warmer in this handbasket we’re all in and there’s a distinct smell of rotten eggs in the air, my thoughts turned to the memetic swamp of politics.

( Toxic politics: hold your nose and click )

We can have global warming and an ice age!

Maybe some people will take global warming seriously if they see dire warnings in Fortune magazine? Might the threat of seeing the East Coast looking like Siberia catch their attention?