Memes
Posted By Kathleen David 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
Posted By Kathleen David 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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What do you mean “You can’t vote Republican!”?
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.)