Peter Watts Quotes

Rumors Had Their Own Classic Epidemiology. Each Started With A Single Germinating Event. Information Spread From That Point, Mutating And Interbreeding - A Conical Mass Of Threads, Expanding Into The Future From The Apex Of Their Common Birthplace. Eventually, Of Course, They'd Wither And Die; The Cone Would Simply Dissipate At Its Wide End, Its Permutations Senescent And Exhausted.
There Were Exceptions, Of Course. Every Now And Then A Single Thread Persisted, Grew Thick And Gnarled And Unkillable: Conspiracy Theories And Urban Legends, The Hooks Embedded In Popular Songs, The Comforting Easter-bunny Lies Of Religious Doctrine. These Were The Memes: Viral Concepts, Infections Of Conscious Thought. Some Flared And Died Like Mayflies. Others Lasted A Thousand Years Or More, Tricked Billions Into The Endless Propagation Of Parasitic Half-truths.

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