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“It does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1840).

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Richard Dawkins | Memes | Oxford Union

An excerpt from Richard Dawkin’s open Q&A session at the Oxford Union on 18th February 2014. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme.

1:45 Defining the Meme
3:30 Cultural Evolution
5:25 The “Chinese Whispers” Analogy, sufficiently short and efficacy
6:40 The Test of Accuracy