[samtheman]

I think with Isalmism we may have discovered a new strain of Nazism that can sustain itself. It's like this self-replicating concept (meme) from hell.

I agree with you. I was already thinking about the meme aspect of Islam. The problem with talking about memes is that the definition tends to quickly expand in any conversation (or theory) to include all of human thought.

This is my opinion of memes:

1. Not all human thoughts are memes.

2. Memes, by definition, are bad, since they are antithetical to individual human thought.

3. Islam is the classic example of a meme.

[risk]

Interesting! So the urge to be free is not a meme because it's inborn. Value for American style representative could still be considered a meme, though, couldn't it? Why would *all* memes have to be bad? Pro American war propaganda from WWII and the Cold War elicited memes, didn't they? Yet the purpose of instilling a willingness to resist the Axis and the threat of communism was effective in preserving our freedom from *bad* memes.

I'll have to think about this and continue exchanging thoughts with you.