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  • Anomalocaris@lemm.eetochat@hexbear.netMemes are dead
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    6 hours ago

    lets go back to the original definition of meme,

    Memory+gene,

    IE, a concept that is shared and survives on its own. I can teach you to do something, which you teach someone else and so on.

    those concepts can change and are affected by natural selection, is it isn’t shared it dies, if it changes (unintentionally, let’s say when you teach someone you change it a bit and that version makes it easier to teach)…

    it’s a term coined be Richard Dawkins in the selfish gene(he is a bit of a twat but that idea is interesting).

    unless you are referring to a very specific kind of meme (like using animal templates for online memes) memes cannot really end. language is a meme, culture is a meme.














  • I meant “i wish I could leave”

    I have a complicated history, but long story short, my ex (American citizen) convinced me to move to the States with our children, and when we arrived she sabotaged my greencard application leaving me undocumented. I am trying to get legal status through VAWA, but It’s slow.

    if I could I would take the kids and return to Europe it would be kidnapping, and if I leave without them, I’ll never see them again.

    I am living in constant fear of ICE.

    I ain’t even from here, but I’m stuck here now. Expecting me to fight for your freedom is like blaming a polish jew in the ghetto for not fighting against Hitler hard enough.

    I will never rat out anyone else. but also, I know of no one else in my situation anyways.


  • I meant “i wish I could leave”

    I have a complicated history, but long story short, my ex (American citizen) convinced me to move to the States with our children, and when we arrived she sabotaged my greencard application leaving me undocumented. I am trying to get legal status through VAWA, but It’s slow.

    if I could I would take the kids and return to Europe it would be kidnapping, and if I leave without them, I’ll never see them again.

    I am living in constant fear of ICE.

    I ain’t even from here, but I’m stuck here now. Expecting me to fight for your freedom is like blaming a polish jew in the ghetto for not fighting against Hitler hard enough.