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| | urticator.net - Reaction Against Button-Pushing |
 | | As civilized human beings, of course, we know we don't have to give in to impulse and act when our buttons are pushed, but it's very, very difficult to avoid paying attention when it happens. |
 | | In our search for mind viruses, then, our first candidates will be situations that push one or more of these four buttons—anger, fear, hunger, and lust—and thus draw our attention, our precious attention, to a use of our consciousness for which, upon reflection, we would not choose to spend it. |
 | | The sign that a meme is bad is not that it's a good replicator, but that it pushes buttons, that it's strident, let's say. |
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