This is the whole point of memes, in the original sense as a parallel for genesGenes want to ensure their own survival and can be good or bad for the organism; memes, likewise, are replicating units of ideas. Most of them are just ordinary ideas which we discuss, but some of them evade rationality and have means of going uncriticised. We should hunt those ones down and kill them with fire.
I don't think this applies to any internet memes, or memes in the sense of fun things to repeat.
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I don't think this applies to any internet memes, or memes in the sense of fun things to repeat.