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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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[–] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org -1 points 12 hours ago

yeah and i find it weird how little attention is given to the symbolic targets ... the World Trade Center was largely involved in establishing cross-country businesses ... in other words, meddling within other country's internal economics (often to the dismay of the local population). by far not all people in the world wanted free trade. so they attacked the free trade center ... and that was a symbol against free trade, free trade being an unwanted thing by many other people around the globe because it meant the disruption of native economic systems, etc.

and yet that fact that free trade is not globally understood as something universally good, and that maybe there should be less of it, ... i don't think that i've ever heard any newspaper talk about that.