The pagan roots of memeticism

The memetics idea is just a throw-back to folk-stories about the harvest

In his magnum opus, The Mind and Society, Vilfredo Pareto constructs a biological theory of ideology which states that the genetic substance of a view often expresses itself in similar, but different forms throughout times and places. The lengthy work is built on dozens, if not hundreds of historical examples attempting to demonstrate this, because in Pareto’s day there was no quantitative human science beyond what Pareto largely pioneered in economics.