Hyperstition

Hyperstition is a neologism that combines the words ‘hyper’ and ‘superstition’ to describe the action of successful ideas in the arena of culture. Akin to neo-Darwinist Richard Dawkins’ concept of memes, hyperstitions work at the deeper evolutionary level of social organisation in that they influence the course taken by cultural evolution. Unlike memes, however, hyperstitions describe a specific category of ideas. Coined by renegade academics, the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), hyperstition describes both the effects and the mechanisms of apocalyptic postmodern ‘phase out’ or ‘meltdown’ culture.

"transmuting fictions into truths"

in MADRU fashion the contextual information is contorted to fit the memetic theory, and in this case it is that events that are transcribed can be explained by hyperstition, i suppose you could make a case for meta-hyperstition

http://merliquify.com/blog/articles/hyperstition/#.XUB4x-hKjcs

https://www.reddit.com/r/occult/comments/1ty7eo/hyperstition_the_science_of_selffulfilling/

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