We don’t need the word “memes”. The words “idea”, “joke”, etc. already exist and are perfectly cromulent words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don’t need the word “memes”. The words “idea”, “joke”, etc. already…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[154,345],"class_list":["post-23209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-language","tag-words","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}TO-DO: <\/s>re-read the origin for meme. Which I think is Richard Dawkins “The Selfish Gene<\/a>“.
confirmed: “The book also introduces the term\u00a0meme<\/a><\/em>\u00a0for a unit of human\u00a0cultural evolution<\/a>\u00a0analogous to the gene, suggesting that such “selfish” replication may also model human culture, in a different sense.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"