Unfortunately most young kids today think Socialism is being addicted to Facebook and Youtube. They were barely born when the Berlin wall came down. History is lost and bound to repeat itself.
The attrition of full time workers while being replaced by part timers is the only solution. BofA taught us that decades ago.
Whoever wrote thus article will ne disapppointed by “The Selfish Gene,” or at least the part about memes. It’s nothing more than a crude and lazy attempt to subsume culture under evolution as well as biology. The only reason the word has retained currency is the ease of tracking various mutations (and I use that wire loosely) of buzzwords, catchphrases, jokes, etc. on the Internet.
We need a new word. When Government deliberately miseducates students so that they never know certain things, and when it represses efforts by older generations who know those things to transmit them to the new generation, and when Government tries to induce societal forgetfulness of old and useful truths, we need a new word for that, similar to the evil Russian loan-word "disinformation" (desinformatsiya) to convey the full meaning of that cynical, destructive, self-serving purpose.