Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy. ]
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection.