11 thoughts on memes: 1. The 2024 election will be won by the candidate with the best memes. 2. The best memes compress mass emotion into simple contagious concepts: "Ok Boomer" or "Karen" 3. Social media has stolen the meme-industrial complex from mainstream media. 4. You… Show more
To be a meme, an idea has to contain quite sophisticated knowledge of how to cause humans to do at least two independent things: assimilate the meme faithfully, and enact it. That some memes can replicate themselves with great fidelity for many generations is a token of how much knowledge they contain.