Check out this new meme... it will blow your mime.

Virus: an organic body not considered a living organism, but displaying many of same traits: self-replication, propagation, adaptation, and death. Enter the analogy of the computer virus, where systems are compromised purely by their ability to execute anything executable - often with incredible, damaging speed. The irony is that of all the fantastically awful things a virus could do to your computer (such as corrupting the CMOS so that your computer can no longer boot, not simply stopping at erasing your hard drive), most viruses merely act as gateways to infect you with data-mining and advert-pumping malware. With the discussion of mimetics, the analogy is applied to the transmission of thoughts. Though it may apply to the rapidly spreading, compromising nature of dangerous thoughts, memes are not necessarily 'programmed' to 'hack' the mind. We are all aware of indoctrination and brainwashing, but are any of these forced methods of brain breaking as fluid and voluntary as media consumption? Hypodermic needle theories aside, viral media is much less about involuntary action and more about playing the 'mime' - though the lowest rung of the theatrical discipline and relatively forgettable, each mime does imitate in its own way, implying some fragment of originality. The point here is that, like virii, ideas can be dangerous if not handled properly. Choose your memes wisely.