Mental Immunity

Why do people take extreme action? Hate crime? Bombing?

How should we fix it ??

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Mind parasite
• parasite that literally infect the mind

Mind immune system. How do they work? Why they failed?

Cultural immune system


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Use immunology terms. Make us approach this issue better



Jonathan Hadit “ the rightous mind”
• Our brain has tribal ARCH
• Our thinking is bend to tribal solidarity



We failed to asked basic problems, other suffer for it


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Mental malware
Ex: good memes spread, gossip


Ideas spread no matter good or bad


Ex: why newspaper does not report us ideas, give others ideas, give others permission
->the meaning take on a life of its own


Bad ideas have all the properties of a parasite
• harmful by defin


Up to us to filter out bad ideas
• we need to call out bad ideas, just as important as calling out bad action