Well, it's the Rev. Dodgson's Knight, but yes, he does.... (Well,
actually, it's his long explanatory preamble to the song....)
Anyway, a 'meme' is _not_ the thing used to transmit it in any case.
Dawkins be damned. There is no point in multiplying entities to this
degree. The artifacts and productions of thoughts and ideas may or may
not have creative vectors memetically based, but taking the meme out of
the mind is pointless and fuzzy- also, regardless of the fact no-one
actually _knows_ what a meme is, a pet peeve of mine....
The manipulative objects like slogans and mottos and catchphrases and
prejudices so often called 'memes' are just what they are- slogans and
mottos and....
There is a little more sense in talking about the _medium_ itself
memetically, IMHO. (Reed, where are ya?) The sum total of CRT, jump cuts,
FX, and sound that is modern TV advertising is an astoundingly rich field
of investigation. It's not so much the technology, but the effects
produced which are 'memetics' to me. But the meme remains within the
mind/body/brain.
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