A
narratologist, Harris Tottle, has truck with a memist, Mimosa...
Harris Tottle: Abe rose
with the spring but, mark my words, he’ll fall before autumn.
Mimosa: Pictures are
already depicting this rise and fall. These are the memes of Abenomics.
Harris Tottle: Might even
call them narremes.
Harris Tottle: There’s
such a word. But it’s not a well thought out concept.
Mimosa: Neither is Abenomics.
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Voice-over
The concept of memes as
being cultural ideas that self-replicate, spread and mutate, like genes, is a
convenient analogy. But even Richard Dawkins cautioned that “Memes are a
philosophical method; they aren't a scientific object.”
If memes are chunks of
culture, are narremes chunks of stories?
In a forest of ideas,
analogies help us sketch the species we stumble upon.
Abenomics memes from The Economist.
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