[alganet]

I don't know, I never read that manual. Not particularly curious to do so.

I am talking about autonomous cultural mechanisms. I cannot correlate it with works from another author.

The "dillution by correlation" is also a kind of autonomous cultural mechanism that preys on the human proneness to identify patterns. These manuals for training seem to good to be true, and if they are, too obvious to remain effective.

[turtleyacht]

"Autonomous cultural mechanism" sounds like it should belong in a biology of memetics, or mind-viruses. It's unique enough that you could have coined it.

Problem is innoculation is impossible; only active "treatment" is like repeating a series of phrases or something. Reasoning through a series of affirmations.

[alganet]

That's one way of seeing it, I guess.

"virus" implies something harmful, a disease. I refrain from borrowing that term because, as I said, I don't know if it merits being associated with something bad.

Since we are here on a techie forum, I could have used a term like "cobtinously self-applying cultural diff patch". Got it?

What it really reminds me of is the story about the East India Company and the tulip selling rise, crisis and subsequent crash.

But that's because I thought too much about words and was "hit in the head" with a lot of wordplay that made me create a box inside my head that looks at language and history in a weird way.

These ideas about cultural diseases, treatments, biology comparisons... to me, sound dumb. Like if someone watched too many movies and is trying too hard to be funny. This is not for me, it goes on the weird box.

It seems people like the weird box stuff. Maybe I should charge very high prices for it. You know what? Let's make it so. Tapping into my weird head box incurs terrible cultural charges that must be payed.