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minus-square@spujb@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglish4•9 months agoit’s kind of crazy that Dawkins came up with a word describing a cultural phenomenon before it took off. not often that that happens and usually folks are left floundering for a minute trying to find language that describes their experience.
minus-squareAnnoyed_🦀 Alink3•edit-29 months agoI think his meme is meant for something in a broader sense, it’s basically mean an idea that spread via imitation, and we human learn and advance mostly due to this imitation. Edit:ohh i see what you mean now, and yes i agree.
minus-square@spujb@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglish2•9 months agoabsolutely correct, nevertheless it applied to this niche scenario basically from the beginning as such, the internet meme became the most poignant example of the term, but i would never say that internet memes are definitive of the term itself.
it’s kind of crazy that Dawkins came up with a word describing a cultural phenomenon before it took off.
not often that that happens and usually folks are left floundering for a minute trying to find language that describes their experience.
I think his meme is meant for something in a broader sense, it’s basically mean an idea that spread via imitation, and we human learn and advance mostly due to this imitation.
Edit:ohh i see what you mean now, and yes i agree.
absolutely correct, nevertheless it applied to this niche scenario basically from the beginning
as such, the internet meme became the most poignant example of the term, but i would never say that internet memes are definitive of the term itself.