MITIGATION AND DEFEAT, CONTINENTAL READINESS TRAINING TAPES
100-SERIES, APPENDIX A
ENTRY, SYNDEME-- Used to denote separate classifications of intraspace parasite borne by social transmission.
Expounded Syndeme Theory was pioneered by Tiger Team MADCHIMP by tracking intraspace incursions using outbreak analysis. Syndeme Theory views intraspace incursions as clusters of symptoms and patterns of behavior, prone to preferred transmission vectors and hosts. At the time of it's discovery, MADCHIMP had identified six "primitive" syndemes that could be used to classify and catalog intraspace incursions. MIDCON-REDs sister agencies noted syndeme theory as an unfalsifiable curiosity while failing to see the potential, and shelved future research while MIDCON chose to develop the concept and recatalog intraspace threats to fit syndeme categorization.
Syndeme Theory further developed with the release of Richard Dawkin's "The Selfish Gene" in 1976, at a time [when] MIDCON-RED's sister organizations including MADCHIMP had gone inactive or absorbed into MIDCON. While Dawkins used the concept of memes to describe the process by which mundane ideas evolve and replicate as a social contagion, syndemes could now be understood as the process by which interspace entities propagate and spread in the minds of those afflicted, spark identifiably behavioral symptoms in the host necessary for its development, then reach maturity by manifesting intraspace entities in our physical reality.
Similar to viral strains, syndemes can be broken into subclassifications and variants. The largest taxonomic grouping of syndemes identified by Midcon-Red remains OD URANIDES, which itself is broken into Twelve global-threat level variants created at the point of exposure when Majestic-12 first converged in 1949.
Of important note is that MIDCONs understanding of syndemes and intraspace entities remains theoretical, with many of MIDCON's contemporary sister agencies misunderstanding our commitment to syndeme theory as an overreliance. To understand why we conform to this method when dealing with intraspace entities, consider the following. MIDCON has only been able to document subjective accounts of interaction on the astral plane, or those fleeting moments of contact as they pass through our dimension like the Many-Angled ones of Edwin Abbott's Flatland. Critical questions abound, such as why one syndeme variant of the same classification of URANIDE will develop into a Lam entity while another will develop into a lloigor construct. It is difficult, if not impossible, to assess the true nature of these beings through comprehensive empirical analysis. We can, however, measure them by displacement by cataloging the specific symptoms they generate in those exposed to their influence. Therefore, MIDCON's best strategy is to track and catalog clusters of intraspace incursions by patterns of behavior and transmission vectors rather than individual entities.
For example, OD URANIDES "Rhea" Variant often seeks adolescents as their preferred host. But URANIDES evolutionary niche developed within the relatively isolated world of government Black Science projects far from adolescents. Thus variant Rhea-1-o-Nine evolved to begin its lifecycle as a cognitive meme spread through the medical field-- belief in the Incastagive Learning method of teaching. This intangible idea generates behavioral symptoms where the medical professional will transmit the syndeme to adolescents through tangible abuse and trauma just as the flu is transmitted through physical contact. Once Rhea-1-o-Nine has been passed to adolescents, it will pupate within the host until it matures into an intraspace incursion which may be an invasion vector for the Lam or lloigor plexus.
Over the course of these tapes, you will be given enough examples to assist in determining what classification of URANIDE an intraspace incursion may be based on a close analysis of its specific syndeme. Correctly identifying a syndeme often plays a critical role in tracking its spread, finding its vulnerabilities, and even predicting future incursions.
