The Information War Peter Lamborn Wilson material on Information War, Islam and Internet-religion, a War in Heaven Humanity has always invested heavily in any scheme that offers escape from the body.
Material reality is such a mess.
This idea characterizes what we call civilization. To do experimental linguistics or bottom-up linguistics, we would have to add two more flows to the flow of food and the genes. The other one is a flow of norms, which are patterns that are not transmitted by imitation but by enforced repetition, for instance the sounds of a language. However, anything that reproduces, like genes, memes or norms, can evolve. John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt International Policy Department RAND explaining cyberwar and information-related factors in military history.