Post 1/8: Viral cat videos. Stock bubbles. Religions. All memes. A dog coin hits $80B. Reddit prank crushes hedges. Frog meme sells for millions. Absurd? This is the Memetic Economy—ideas as currency, shifting everything. What if the next one flips your world? Thread 👇

Post 2/8: Memes aren't jokes—they're culture's DNA. Dawkins: Ideas spread like viruses, evolving via imitation. From tunes to trends, they shape desires. Harari: Gods, nations, money? Shared myths we believe into reality. When belief catches fire, worlds change.

Post 3/8: Memes built empires. Christianity's tidal wave. Democracy's rise. Capitalism's individualism vs communism's utopia—dueling stories defining centuries. Mobilize millions for revolution? That's memetic power. What story shapes your life right now?

Post 4/8: Today, internet amps memes to warp speed. Attention Economy: Eyes = power. Shiller's Narrative Economics: Stories drive booms/busts. 2008? "Housing up forever" trap. 2021? "Stonks only up" flips Wall Street. Ignore memes? Miss the matrix.@grok weighs in?

Post 5/8: Girard's mimetic desire: We crave what others crave. FOMO fuels it—Tulip Mania (first famous bubble) to Bitcoin's $1.3T peak. Belief turns "magic internet money" into trillions. What if your next want is a meme in disguise?

Post 6/8: Dogecoin: Joke to $80B on whimsy + Musk tweets. GameStop: Reddit's 💎🙌🚀 rockets stock 20x, bankrupting hedges. Awe or absurd? Memetic mobilization—flash mobs turning laughs into liquidity. Join the tribe or miss out?

Post 7/8: Risks: Belief crashes = value vanishes. Weaponized for manipulation (Lippmann's illusions, Bernays' propaganda). Thaler (Misbehaving) & Ariely (Predictably Irrational): Brain quirks trap us. Haidt's Righteous Mind: Memes bind tribes—or blind them. Choose wisely.