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    uctured the Roman Empire a mere 300 years after Jesus completed

    his Sermon on the Mount.  And Marxism radically altered the shape of

    Russian society a startling 60 years after Karl the cantankerous ambled

    out of the British Museum's library with the final manuscript of Das

    Kapital tucked tightly under his arm.

    The meme has done its work by assembling massive social

    systems, the new rulers of this earth.  Together, the meme and the

    human superorganism have become the universe's latest device for

    creating fresh forms of order.  They are the newest innovation in a

    climb toward complexity that started with The Big Bang.

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