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born 1943 United States

Howard Bloom (born June 25, 1943) is an American author and scientific thinker, and served as a publicist for musicians in the popular music industry, transforming and launching the careers of many rock stars.

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In our preoccupations with sex, our submission to gods and leaders, our sometimes suicidal commitment to ideas, religions, and trivial details of cultural style, we become the unconscious creators of the social organism's exploits.

The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History (1997)

By 1999, over 880 studies suggested that some mutations might... be genetic alterations "custom tailored" to overcome emergencies.

By the nineteenth century... new circumstances called for new conformity enforcers... The government locked you in a house of penitence—a penetentiary—where your feelings of remorse would theoretically pummel you without cease.

Where did the second law of thermodynamics come from? ...The steam engine. ...The cosmos is not a steam engine.

The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)

When Richard Dawkins first published his idea of a meme, he made it clear he was speaking of "a unit of imitation"… Memes were supposed to be exclusive triumphs of humanity. But memes come in two different kinds—behavioral and verbal. ...behavioral memes began brain-hopping long before there were such things as human minds.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Howard Bloom (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.