Memes: Introduction by Glenn Grant, Memeticist An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you. --Morris Berman What if ideas were viruses Consider the T-phage virus. A T-phage cannot replicate itself; it reproduces by hijacking the DNA of a bacterium, forcing its host to make millions of copies of the phage. Similarly, an idea can parasitically infect your mind and alter ...