Is there a fundamental internet meme that has had such a major impact that it would have notable repercussions if it had somehow disappeared?
Is there a fundamental internet meme that has had such a major impact that it would have notable repercussions if it had somehow disappeared?
Does it have to be an internet meme? Also does God count as a meme?
Meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene in 1976, and defined as the equivalent of a gene but for more abstract ideas (because the gene is ultimately just a unit of information as well). I don’t remember for sure if religion is specifically an example he personally used, but if it’s not it’s very comfortably in the same vein.
Religion is a memeplex in Dawkins’s conception