The effectiveness of passing along means should not be underestimated either, a point which can be underscored by the following quotation from Blackmore. "Take the song 'Happy Birthday To You'…Those words affect you, probably quite without any conscious intention on your part, by stirring up a memory you already possess" (37). If the traveling mindset referenced by de Buton could be even half as ubiquitous as the song of Happy Birthday, the possibility of people being aware of their blindness and selfishness would be substantially increased -- to the point where that awareness could even eliminate such negative qualities. At the heart of the matter lies the fact that the traveling mindset can act as a transformative force in mind evolution by making people more aware of their faults, and allowing them to evolve beyond them so that they may be occupied with more noble pursuits of their time. Transmitting such a state of mind as a meme would be the best away of spring this evolution, as the following quotation implies. "Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others" (64). By examining the nature of memes, and their relationship to genes and genetics, we may be able to better understand how they can help in a positive process of social evolution as related to a traveling...

"Remember that the same shorthand applies to memes as to genes We can say that memes are 'selfish', that they 'do not care', that they 'want' to propagate themselves and so on, while all we mean is that the successful memes are the ones that get copied and spread, while the unsuccessful ones do not" (37). De Buton's quote illustrates how important it is to be understood and accepted the ones that we are with. If it were possible to uses memes to get the ones that we are with to adopt and adapt the same travelling mindset that initially influenced De Maister, Blackmore's quote suggests that the passing of this idea between people would be fairly contagious. Due to the degree of awareness afforded people because of this mindset, society would be able to evolve beyond its petty complaints and self-centered blindness which is not conducive to forward progress.
Therefore, it would be highly useful to be able to get a wider number of people to adopt De Maistre and de Buton's traveling state of mind. An examination of Blackmore's essay reveals that memes and their sharing of information would be a highly effective way to get as many people as possible to take on this mindset. By doing so, society would more than likely be able to evolve beyond some of its faults into a higher form of species.