Meme

A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem) is  supposedly “an idea, behaviour, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.”

The word meme is a shortened version of mimeme which was artificially derived from the Ancient Greek μίμημα meaning “imitated thing” by some craven adulation-seeking wanker known as a “Dawkins”.

Supporters of the concept (i.e. other, even less intelligent wankers) regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.

What a meme seems to be these days is a re-posting on Facebook of a picture with words added to it in block letters in what seems like a seemingly random approach.

From my sampling of Facebook I would say that people post them because (a) they don’t have anything of their own to post, (b) they find them ‘funny’ (i.e. they don’t understand them), and (c) they have an existential fear that a lack of postings on Facebook equates to not existing.

So I would like to suggest that a meme is in fact “an image with meaningless words added that spreads from Facebook page to Facebook page within a culture of uneducated morons that have a dreadful existential fear of not existing.”

I regard memes as the cultural analogue to a bacterial culture growing in a Petri dish until all the nutrients are used up, where upon the bugs will die in a sea of their own waste.