Hey, erbody. 

I've been doing a lot of work/research with memes and memetics and I've realises something.

The meme was introduced by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book, "The Selfish Gene," (although a proto version of the idea had been around for 80 odd years in various forms, he really put it all together neatly). It's introduction served two of Dawkins' goals. 1 - It showed that not only was there Universal Darwinism but that more than one replicator existed on Earth. 2 - It showed that religion was like a parasite in the mind.