Book Review: There is No Antimemetics Division

TLDR: “Promising but confusing” An antimemetic is an idea that resists spreading. I read an entire book about this last year. But that was about real antimemtics. This is about monsters. This book was an outgrowth of the SCP Wiki which is a community-edited wiki that represents a fake world of monsters and aliens and such that have to be contained. The idea is that there are ideas that are so dangerous that they’re effectively monsters – they could actually kill you. They’re called “Unknowns,” and they’re numbered. They actively prevent themselves from spreading – they force you to forget about them once you’ve encountered them, and they erase any evidence of their existence. If you meet with one, you will forget everything that happens. If you encounter them again, you need to hope there’s some written record of what happened that you can refer to. People working in the Antimemetics Division take “mnestics,” which are drugs to help them remember. They’re effective, but they damage…