Meme can be defined units of consciousness or ideas that get reproduced by repetition in similar ways to how genes get biologically reproduced. An advertising slogan can be considered a meme. So can a hook to a top 40 song. So can expressions that we hear commonly
“My bad”
“Sadly…”
“Weapons of mutual destruction”
“Don’t worry, be happy”
Any racial, ethical gender or other slur that gets repeated without direct knowledge would be a meme.
“The world will end in 2012”
“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough and gosh darn it people like me..”
All memes.
One of the most interesting qualities of memes to me would be the way they stick inside your head and echo till you find yourself repeating them. It could be a song that you hum…, or self talk…it could be a joke from a sitcom that you saw the night before but memes like to reproduce
Hmmm….so ideas that echo in our head that we think about and if our thoughts affect our reality….then the memes that enter our heads daily affect our reality!!!!
Sure makes a good argument for being careful about what information we let enter into our heads and what memes we spread…
When people ask how we are doing do we say “Same shit , different day” or do we say “Every day a new adventure….”
How does saying each of those affect our reality?
How does the things we say affect the reality of the people around us?
Lots of great questions
Lots of awesome responsibility
Starting today I think i will start putting out….
Sorry couldn’t resist 🙂
I will start putting out a quote of the day, some meme that I’ve come across that I feel like sharing. I do this quite a bit on twitter.
Quote of the Day
“Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself. ” — Felix Adler
Making Angels in the sands of time