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For the structure of legal memes to act effectively and continue it must generate - or more exactly , perhaps , emanate - popular quasi-legal memes which can readily enter into the habits of the population as a whole . Matter may with propriety be described as merely alien ; perhaps , even , we might describe it as " The Aliens , " for the singular suggests a certain definiteness while the plural would indicate the absence of any determination . Perhaps , it would be more informative if the networks showed shades of purple along with the red and blue states in 2008 . It was just a coincidence , they said , macabre perhaps , but a coincidence nonetheless that Jared 's disappearance came almost precisely five years to the day that another young college-age man , a man bearing a striking resemblance to Dion , had drowned along that same stretch of river under circumstances that were chillingly similar . The youth could detect no expression that would allow him to believe that the other was giving a thought to his narrowed future , the pictured dungeons , perhaps , and starvations and brutalities , liable to the imagination .