OBEY the MEME!
15 years ago
These couple of TED talks shed some light (atleast for me) on what memes actuallly are, how they work and what it entails:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/s.....and_temes.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennet.....ous_memes.html
Very interesting ideas - if you happen to have a few minutes to spare, I highly recommend taking a look atleast at the first one. There's also a scientiffic field, called memetics, researching memes, so if you think memes are limited to nothing but harmless little fun games on FA (I admit I did get that notion, for some reason...), you may want to rethink things a bit to see it in a wider picture.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/s.....and_temes.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennet.....ous_memes.html
Very interesting ideas - if you happen to have a few minutes to spare, I highly recommend taking a look atleast at the first one. There's also a scientiffic field, called memetics, researching memes, so if you think memes are limited to nothing but harmless little fun games on FA (I admit I did get that notion, for some reason...), you may want to rethink things a bit to see it in a wider picture.
And it's not very surpising you don't agree, there's plenty of hostility towards memetics in the academia. The facts that the theory is still raw, pretty outrageous and hard to apply or dissprove doesn't help. I still think the idea has potential, it's a whole different way of thinking of things. Look at it as a branch of philosophy while it matures...