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Like I said, I've always been dubious and never really bought the idea - but equally have not read more than the most sketchy outlines or comments. It's an interesting metaphore, yes... it's just the way I hear people throwing it about "I will not subcum to your meme". "I'm over that meme now", seems almost a way for them (generally internet geeks and nerds like the folks on wiki or RW) to put some (any) idea into a classification as "popular idea everyone is buying into". Ie., in their parlance, right or wrong, "memes" are things you don't think about, you just have or do not have.

A meme is an idea. why did it have to become something *more* than a idea? I guess that's my problem.

Today I am talking about the "purpleization of downtown". it's an idea. when, why, or how does it become a "meme"?

Pink mowse.pngGodotDear god, fucking grow up18:40, 6 January 2012

Depends on who you want to market your pop science book to.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)19:07, 6 January 2012

Will it sell more if it's a "meme" and not just an "idea"?

Pink mowse.pngGodotDear god, fucking grow up19:17, 6 January 2012

I would put my money on "yes," because "ideas" are old, boring, and stuffy. "Memes" are new, fashionable, and better yet, they are ScienceTM!

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)19:23, 6 January 2012

I think there is a study somewhere that shows books sell better if they seem to make up a new word to describe something. I might be pulling it out of my arse, but I'm sure I recall something along those lines...

Scarlet A.pngtheist19:52, 6 January 2012

Well, it sounds right, so it must be true!

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)20:28, 6 January 2012

"Truthoficty and audiosim: understanding the importance of being truth when you speak" (it sounds right, therefore it is).

Pink mowse.pngGodotDear god, fucking grow up22:59, 6 January 2012

Isn't the scientific term for that truthiness?

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)23:21, 6 January 2012

you said "new words" truthiness was coined already. i needed Truthoficity! It's the validity of the truth of truthiness!

Pink mowse.pngGodotDear god, fucking grow up00:28, 7 January 2012

"Truthosity" is easier to say, though.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)01:18, 7 January 2012

Sounds like a portmanteau with "specificity", so yes, it would be the rate that you were actually right when asserting you were.

Scarlet A.pngnarchist11:36, 7 January 2012