Podcast: Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
Episode: Dangerous Thoughts: What is an Infohazard? | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
The Selfish Gene
Buy on Amazon"He wrote this book in 1976 called 'The Selfish Gene,' and he took the word meme from the root of memo, mimic! And Wartman has this great quote summing it up, which I don't know, like we’re going straight to our pal Wartman here because he sums it up the best, I think! The quote is basically a meme is an idea, the kind of idea that endures over time like a memory, which can be copied or mimicked and shared like a memo!"
The Demoiselle D'Ys
Buy on Amazon"Isn't Robert W. Chambers who wrote 'The Yellow King,' famously sort of memed in its own way in season one of 'True Detective'? And in 'The Yellow King,' the entire universe of that, which is very Lovecraft, and it's wrapped around... that's a nice Carcosa reference! The idea that there is some sort of play, and if you read the play, by the very act of experiencing that, you will go mad!"
The Department of Truth #2
Buy on Amazon"It's a comic series that you can get in these little graphic novel compendium things called 'Department of Truth.' Without spoiling it too much, it's based on a secret government society that attempts to ensure conspiracy theories aren't believed by enough people. It manifests in the real world."