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Or, shorter version of this entire spiel, memes are a kind of pseudo-biological reinvention of A.O. Lovejoy's "unit ideas."

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)00:33, 7 January 2012

Why the fuck are they not just "popular ideas". why must they be "special" kinds of "units" of ideas. or "memes" of ideas.

Pouts.

Pink mowse.pngGodotDear god, fucking grow up00:36, 7 January 2012

One of the things I actually like about memes is that they encompass both ideas and actions (sign does this as well, though often in subtly different ways). The notion of "idea" itself almost seems spiritual to me, like some kind of disembodied essence. One of the themes of postmodernism (the parts that weren't absolute gibberish, anyway) was the connection between ideas and actions, especially Foucault's concept of "power/knowledge." Many discoveries in psychology also demonstrate this, again, as in rationalization, in which ideas are not thought up for their intrinsic value but "generated" as a social tool to deal with some predicament.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)00:51, 7 January 2012
 

I'm sure half the art of academia is creating new labels to hide what you mean from the Great Unwashed.

Scarlet A.pngmoral11:40, 7 January 2012

Does the other half involve saying "Ignore that man behind the curtain!"?

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.11:58, 7 January 2012

It's occurred to me that the link in my last post needs some context. The ABA is the American Bar Association, which has recently come under fire for marketing law degrees as the most employable money-making degree on earth, when in fact most law graduates are living in cardboard boxes lined with letters demanding interest payments on their $120,000 student loan debt. (I may have exaggerated a bit...)

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.12:20, 7 January 2012

That I can believe very easily.

Scarlet A.pngnarchist12:24, 7 January 2012
 

i am a researcher at a law firm. all we do is downsize. All any firm in Denver does is downsize.

the largest firms here use lawyers as paralegals now (at 30K a year) cause they can. so many graduating, so few real jobs.

Pink mowse.pngGodotDear god, fucking grow up18:43, 7 January 2012
 
 

When you're not reinventing the wheel, of course.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)15:17, 7 January 2012

by the way, did i tell you that last night I had a dream about the most amazing thing ever. it was sorta roundish, but there were these support beams in the middle. and teh whole point of it was to let it roll, so you could put something on it, and it too would roll.

do you know what kind of money i can make, if only i can get someone to patent that? I think i shall name it circular rollinging thingy.

Pink mowse.pngGodotDear god, fucking grow up18:45, 7 January 2012