(stupid question) Explain the "meme" thing to me...

[Guy Fawkes]

please?

[nickgutierrez]

1. Meme:

"A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another." - Dictionary.com

Basically, a glorified way of saying 'talking point'.

[Guy Fawkes]

2. thank you

:)

[DrWeird]

3. bit more than a talking point though.

Talking points have a definite beginning and intent, like an election campaign trying to spread a message. Memes are less exact. They sort of grow out of no clear beginning, and spread, and evolve.

[murielm99]

4. Memes can begin as talking points,

at least in this day and age.

"Al Gore invented the Internet."

"Wellstone's funeral was a big political rally."

We all know pretty much when those began, and we know that they are crap. But it is amazing how many people still think they are true.

I bought the Al Gore one myself, until I did a little research.

:dunce:

[TheMightyFavog]

5. According to the Memetic Lexicon

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMLEX.html

meme

(pron. `meem') A contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Dawkins, by analogy with "gene".) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic. (Wheelis, quoted in Hofstadter.) (See meme-complex).

[Nile]

6. Is not she the secretary on the Drew Cary show.

:)

[onebigbadwulf]

7. It's also part of a hilariously dubbed G.I. Joe clip!

meme meme meme.

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