“They have confused copying ideas that sound like they might be important, with giving birth to, nurturing, and enacting important ideas. This is approximately analogous to a mother who gives birth not to children, but to gigantic, incredibly expensive dolls of the dead, famous, or popular — which dolls immediately demand so much attention and copying — that all the local human children perish of catastrophic neglect. Meanwhile, the dolls prosper, madly, duplicating themselves endlessly throughout the relational, cognitive, and informational channels the humans who gave birth to them require for their own benefit and survival.”

— an anonymous informant