Popular meme smith Carpe Donktum speaks to The Epoch Times' American Thought Leaders at the 48th Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Council, in St. Louis, Missouri, in September 2019. American Thought Leaders/The Epoch Times
It was hardly an exaggeration when Elon Musk said recently, “Who controls the memes, controls the Universe.” This is akin to Harvard literary critic Irving Babbitt’s observation a century ago that “the imagination ... determines action and so ‘governs mankind.’”
Emily Finley
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Emily Finley holds a PhD from The Catholic University of America. She is a Senior Fellow at The Albertus Magnus Institute and the author of The Ideology of Democratism. She writes at The Christian Imagination.
