https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/tags/memes/ Recent content in Memes on The Singemonkey Hugo en-us Sun, 09 Feb 2020 12:05:57 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-02-09-meme-tastic-memes-are-thoughts-that/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 12:05:57 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-02-09-meme-tastic-memes-are-thoughts-that/ <p>Meme-tastic. Memes are thoughts that propagate - funny images are just one example. Before Richard Dawkins became a general troll and dickhead, he was a brilliant biologist who changed our understanding by noting that genes seek to propagate - not organisms, which are merely the vessels for those genes. He also hypothesised that human ideas could propagate in a way completely analogous to biological evolution - with ideas simply sticking around because they had the right properties to propagate rather than because they were particularly useful. The term, &lsquo;memes&rsquo; was coined to describe these units of idea that could stick and propagate. These little piles of stones seem a pretty fine example to me. Someone made a first one and then&hellip;</p>