There are people, groups, ideas and subcultures… which require human activity and attention for survival. Once established, these ‘nonorganismal cognitive-relational symmetries’ act like organisms within the field of modern human consciousness.

I call this field the cogniscisum, and the competitors, thrisps. The transports across which they act and spread are the relational transports of human group and personal communication as well as media (and other forms that are capable of deploying our voyeuristic compulsions against us). These, collectively, I call the mimula.

Not all thrisps are harmful; but nearly all aggressive thrisps are both harmful and relationally toxic; and most of these must initially attack our intelligence in a way not entirely dissimilar to our models of how HIV attacks our immune system in order to deepen and perpetuate its infection. They must effectively reduce our intelligence in order to remain undetected, and thus dominant.

I believe we must educate each other about these matters, so that we can learn to recognize the most common gambits of virulent thrisps. It is largely these thrisps that form the underlying substrates of our nations and their mimetic (that is: falsified) goalsets. If we do not become actively engaged in understanding our vulnerabilities, we will be overcome by them.