Love the title of this essay, for which the author is apologetic in her introduction: The Reasons for the Unexpected Difficulties of Modern Life: “Memetic parasitism may explain why our species has been

acting so strangely over the past 10,000 years.” Bears some similarities to Daniel Quinn‘s thinking (Ishmael and, more expositorily, The Story of B) and Why Things Bite Back: technology and the revenge of unintended consequences by Edward Tenner.