Nonsense. I can't show you a gene either, but I can make mathematical
models of them, and point to their effects. I can point to the very
real effects of memes too: languages, foods, lifestyles. I could
chart the spread of a meme like, say, use of lemon grass in cooking,
exactly the way I might trace the spread of a pathogen. The science is
young, so there is little objective raw data, but it will come.
> And why _memo_ hazard? The only memo hazard I know about is getting one
> on a Friday afternoon....
By analogy to radio- and bio-. Ideo- would be OK, I guess, but I
kind of like the unobvious pronunciation of memo- (which I would
pronounce with a long e).
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