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Memes

Posted By on December 10, 2004

On other Blogs I have found and read these things called Memes. I have no idea why they are called that. Since I am obsessed about some other stuff I can


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2 Responses to “Memes”

  1. eclark1849 says:

    What do you mean “You can’t vote Republican!”?

  2. Doug Burton says:

    Read “The Blind Watchmaker” or “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins… He talks about Memes as a cultural analog of Genes (sort of like “memory genes”, I guess.) He posits that some memes, like some genes, are more successful than others at getting themselves spread throughout the population (he calls religion a very successful meme.)