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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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The concept of memes is itself a meme

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[–] No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Please elaborate

[–] artifex@piefed.social 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ironically a meme isn’t even a meme in its original sense anymore. Richard Dawkins coined the term in The Selfish Gene in the 70s to mean something like a social gene that gets passed along (he was trying to understand why some behaviors, from an evolutionary perspective, seemed to make no sense but, somehow or other, were found to be very common in human societies)

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

He defined memes as any kind of non-genetic information that is shared and spread by humans. So even what people will define memes as now are still memes in the sense Dawkins defined it as. The only thing we do that isn't a meme, is having children.

[–] whimsy@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Hmmm, is the argument that any and all conceptual ideas are memes?

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago

So long as they spread and mutate, which I think the idea of memes has.