By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Richard Dawkins Quote
“An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.”
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