As we wrote before in this blog, a meme is "an idea,
behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." A
meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which
can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures,
rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as
cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate and respond to
selective pressures.
Of course if a meme self-replicate, mutate and respond to
selective pressures, it becomes an independent entity.
In other words a mature mutated meme is out of control.
That is what has happened with the UFO meme which is now an
independent galaxy of memes.
UFO mythologists contradict themselves and their discourse becomes
incoherent and not just the well known UFO classic legend. Self proclaimed
ufologists become conspiracy theorists and the same individuals who brought the
idea of benevolent ETs, now talk about perverse interdimensional creatures
and weird associations between ET or ED and governments or secret societies.
Can they control this massive nonsense? No, they can’t, because
the UFO meme is more powerful than their creators.
Serious Ufology should analyze carefully the UFO-Conspiracy
meme and follow future developments and mutations.
