The Epidemiology of Ideas
7 min readJun 21, 2020
People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.
— Carl Jung
A virus is an infectious agent that replicates in the living cell of a host organism. In a sense, a virus in itself is not alive. It instead relies on living hosts to do all the work for it, making it, sometimes unbeknownst to the host, reproduce and spread.
An idea can be thought of as a little cell of meaning, of intellectual content…
