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Feline parasites causing cultural change?

posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 07:29pm on 04/08/2006
Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] vgnwtch:

Feline parasites might be changing national cutures.

Maybe this is also the explanation for mad cat lovers?
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posted by [identity profile] hairyears.livejournal.com at 06:47pm on 05/08/2006
Well, the effects of toxoplasma on small rodents are well-documented (in a nutshell, the unlucky victim starts doing suicidally dangerous things that bring them into contact with the organism's next host) so its not entirely absurd to think of an effect in humans.

Me, I'm waiting for commercially-available loyalty viruses. It'll be the Next Big Thing in HR.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 09:16pm on 06/08/2006
You have read Egan on the subject haven't you?
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posted by [identity profile] hairyears.livejournal.com at 09:41pm on 06/08/2006
Yes, I have: it's astonishing that no other author has been there.

Annoying, too, that the loyalty mod turns up as an appendage in yet another scary-and-incomprehensible-Alien-Artifact story, when there is a full-length novel in that one single idea.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 12:31pm on 07/08/2006
There are some elements of that kind of thing in some Reynolds as well, while in his Chasm City there's something even scarier.

There's also an older Haldeman, Tool of the Trade, that has something like it, though there are a few technical issues with that particular idea.

I think one of the problems with this kind of thing is that its difficult to write a story around. The person who gets it wins, full stop.
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