JustJohn
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My sister and BIL have been campaigning all week to try and unseat Raaaab C. Brexit.
Massive respect goes out to your sister and BIL (whose name, I hope, is Bill).
My sister and BIL have been campaigning all week to try and unseat Raaaab C. Brexit.
You must live in heaven.;-)Just a few in mine. Very handily it also happens to be a pub, had a pint after I’d voted
Mark,
Meme is very English. The word was coined by Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. He used the word in his first book The Selfish Gene to mean a unit of cultural inheritance that self-replicates and spreads much as genes do, though with less fidelity. (Obviously, because DNA replication is governed by enzymes that know their onions.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
Its etymology: The word meme is a shortening (modeled on gene) of mimeme (from Ancient Greek μίμημα pronounced [míːmɛːma] mīmēma, "imitated thing", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, "to imitate", from μῖμος mimos, "mime") coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.
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Dawkins wrote that evolution depended not on the particular chemical basis of genetics, but only on the existence of a self-replicating unit of transmission—in the case of biological evolution, the gene. For Dawkins, the meme exemplified another self-replicating unit with potential significance in explaining human behaviour and cultural evolution.
Joe
Do they ring a bell at 21:55 and shout 'Last ballots please!'Just a few in mine. Very handily it also happens to be a pub, had a pint after I’d voted
You must live in heaven.;-)
Do they ring a bell at 21:55 and shout 'Last ballots please!'
Joe,
Sure, but Dawkins is the one who coined the term.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/richard-dawkins-memes
Joe
Bet you wouldn't have been able to say 'disenfranchised' by then...If I hadn’t had to work later it would have been a pleasure to bat it out and see! Might have numbed the pain at 10 when the exit poll is published
Is there a science of epimemetics, where memes can be silenced but expressed at a later date due to environmental factors?Joe,
Sure, but Dawkins is the one who coined the term.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/richard-dawkins-memes
Joe
I think I need a face slap or two.
I saw "If" several times when I was a student in '68. Great film, and I remember coveting the Bren LMG.Ha! Love the title...”Aftermath”. For some reason various scenes from Stanley Kubrick films are popping into my head, oh and Lindsay Anderson. I wonder how much crowing (over the rubble) there’ll be tomorrow?