The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.

'Temes' [technology-enhanced memes] don't care about us - they simply want to create more of themselves. Don't think we created the internet for our own benefit - think about temes spreading for themselves because they must.

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.