A meme is a meme regardless of whether it started on the web, paper, or an ancient brick wall.
The term meme started in the 70s and just because that’s become the commonly accepted term doesn’t mean they didn’t exist well before that (in fact there are examples that are thousands of years old preserved in ruins).
Richard Dawkins coined the term in The Selfish Gene to describe a unit of culture in the same way that a morpheme is a unit of meaning, a phoneme is a unit of aural language, and a grapheme is a unit of writing.
No that’s right, and it would be great if he’d left it at that. But at some point it turned into hatred against Muslims in particular, very bigoted/racist stuff, nothing at all like his anti religion stance with which I agree. Agree religion is all bogus, but Muslims generally are not evil fifth columnists trying to destroy our way of life, backwards goat fuckers imposing Shakira law on all of us infidels. Not a quote, I stopped listening when he started singling out Muslims like that instead of condemning superstition generally without the us vs. them slander.
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A meme is a meme regardless of whether it started on the web, paper, or an ancient brick wall.
The term meme started in the 70s and just because that’s become the commonly accepted term doesn’t mean they didn’t exist well before that (in fact there are examples that are thousands of years old preserved in ruins).
Richard Dawkins coined the term in The Selfish Gene to describe a unit of culture in the same way that a morpheme is a unit of meaning, a phoneme is a unit of aural language, and a grapheme is a unit of writing.
The Blind Watchmaker is also a good’n.
Too bad the author is a right cunt
What’s his deal?
He decided it’s all the Muslims’ fault, mostly
Isn’t he like a hardcore atheist though? I thought he just hated religion in general.
No that’s right, and it would be great if he’d left it at that. But at some point it turned into hatred against Muslims in particular, very bigoted/racist stuff, nothing at all like his anti religion stance with which I agree. Agree religion is all bogus, but Muslims generally are not evil fifth columnists trying to destroy our way of life, backwards goat fuckers imposing Shakira law on all of us infidels. Not a quote, I stopped listening when he started singling out Muslims like that instead of condemning superstition generally without the us vs. them slander.