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meme plague: n. The spread of a successful but pernicious
meme, esp. one that parasitizes the victims into
giving their all to propagate it. Astrology, BASIC, and the other guy's
religion are often considered to be examples. This usage is given point by
the historical fact that ‘joiner’ ideologies like Naziism or
various forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited plague-like
cycles of exponential growth followed by collapses to small reservoir
populations.
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