I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea.
Our task is to create memes. . . Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.
Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.
Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.
Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. " Another fairy tale to give men hope. The old religions have been discredited although some refuse to face even that fact so new ones must be invented.
I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.
