Thread:User talk:Nebuchadnezzar/Memes

Just a clarification. You say you often find memetics and memes to be a but woo-y or pseudoscience-y... but are you just objecting to things like applying natural selection to them? As in, do you accept it as a decent enough word for talking about social attitudes and how they bolt on to each other and how some ideas tend to be more compatible with others because they share similar "memes"?

Because I tend to use it more in that latter sense, as a form of analysis more than anything, and am wondering if there's a better set of terminology out there.