The concept of memes is itself a meme
Ironically a meme isn’t even a meme in its original sense anymore. Richard Dawkins coined the term in The Selfish Gene in the 70s to mean something like a social gene that gets passed along (he was trying to understand why some behaviors, from an evolutionary perspective, seemed to make no sense but, somehow or other, were found to be very common in human societies)
He defined memes as any kind of non-genetic information that is shared and spread by humans. So even what people will define memes as now are still memes in the sense Dawkins defined it as. Just about the only thing we do that isn’t a meme, is having children.
@Kolanaki@pawb.social He also said that memes mutate and evolve in a way analogous to genes. The concept of memes has itself mutated and evolved to the point that it nowadays most commonly refers to recognisable image macros (though in the Dawkinsian sense, an image macro is not actually a meme, but rather an instance of one meme).
It’s like saying word is a word.
Hmmm, is the argument that any and all conceptual ideas are memes?
So long as they spread and mutate, which I think the idea of memes has.
When i opened the post i hoped to be blessed with wisdom. Is that all?
Please elaborate
You just started reading this sentence and it’s already over.
You’re a meme
Actually, that’s pretty much the only thing not a meme, since OP was presumably created by sharing genetic information.
