You're (and it's) not talking about what we're talking about here. The title of this post is "Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilisation", and Nick's paper has nothing to do with that sort of poison meme that I could see. Not everything fitting the words "harmful sensation" is an example of a superstimulus, a human-crashing meme or even of the motif (trope) of harmful sensation - and the latter may fade into mere bad information, but is nevertheless not the same thing.