Ideological turbulence, media distrust, fake news and the hyper-inflating bias towards successfully self-propagating inflammatory rhetoric in (or as) social media is one instance of a broader principle through which life and intelligence negotiate and harness or exploit entropy in information and energy processing systems.
Self-Propagating Memetic Information Systems
Human minds are self-propagating patterns of information that are implicitly biased towards seeking biological, cultural and technological methods of (self-)reproduction.
Harm Minimisation and Epidemiological Criminology ?
An epidemiological approach to violent crime ? It has proven to be a successful strategy and seems to me to be eminently sensible.
