General Chat / Meme ANALysis

Memes, technically, are the cultural / social equivalent of genes. As our genes shape our physical self, our memes shape our cultural / social self. Anything you do is shaped by memes! From your taste in music, to your language, and the way you use it, it's all shaped by memes. In fact, it could be said, and has, that people with similar taste and style are "family", of a sort.

In the internet "blog" sense, memes are stupid, but short, distractions like quizzes, lists, etc.

Those first types of memes kick ass. At least the bit I read about them in the Selfish Gene was really cool - more interesting than genes, for me.

The Japanese and Germans were evil people at one time but now they are good.

Some sexual acts are moral, some are immoral and some are disgusting. Which ones belong to which category varies from time to time.

^my two favorite American memes....

on 4chan, memes are formulaic running jokes people invent and use to garner attention.

All memes of any sort though are ridiculous and petty and you need not pay attention to them.

I'm sort of sick of people who generalize too much. The more you generalize, the more apparent it is you are not in touch with reality.