So are stereotypes, political attack commercials, and propaganda. This lexicon defines the terms and ideas used when discussing memes , as well as their identifying characteristics and tactics. Dangerous to itself. The bait usually justifies, but does not explicitly urge, the replication of a meme-complex. Also called the reward co-meme .
Memes evolve in competition for niches in the belief-space of individuals and societies.
Any attempt to hinder the spread of a meme by eliminating its vectors . Hence, censorship is analogous to attempts to halt diseases by spraying insecticides. Censorship can never fully kill off an offensive meme , and may actually help to promote the meme's most virulent strain, while killing off milder forms. Also called a symmeme . Currently without human hosts.