Damsel and I have been tagged by LinkedInUSAF to respond to a list of questions in a meme recently seen circulating in the blogosphere. Since the Damsel and I have to collaborate on our answers, it may be a day or two before the meme gets posted here.
Oh, by the way . . . WTF is a meme?
One definition of meme on the Web:
As defined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976): “a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.” “Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.
A meme is sort of like a chain letter, I guess.
Ahhh, kind Sir, a meme is reduced as follows:
Me Theme
me-the-me
me-me
meme
How’s that? 🙂
Hmmmm . . .
I wasn’t aware of the evolution of the word – interesting!