Memes certainly want things too. They want to propagate. Or so it seems
from a distance. Up close I imagine they seem to be disinterested and
mechanistic. I imagine a meme to a be paradigm shift for a new thinkers to
better understand what is up until recently exclusively mystically
connotated. I think it is somewhat analogous to physics: light rays
relabeled as quantum wave-packets, and to biology: evil disease spirits
and bad vapours relabeled as germs.