Showing posts with label meme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meme. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

The unfunniness of anti-Trump memes

Watching the airport chaos unfold…
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Bill: After the chaos affecting certain people at certain US airports and beyond, I was looking for a smart anti-Trump meme. But I gave up.
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George: You gave up?
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Bill: Googling "anti-Trump memes" throws up an unmanageable number. Hundreds. And they're not funny. Because they are almost all so true. The only usable subtle one I found was about education.
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George: And this is only his first week in office. Fortunately, many journalists have become a de facto opposition party and reporting on and questioning his policies.
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Bill: Keep looking for ways to counter this insanity at the top. Marches. Social media. Legal suits. It’s going to be a drawn-out battle.
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Voice-over

This floundering administration with its malevolent incompetent leader could push its critics, which include more than half the public, Democrats, disaffected Republicans and journalists, to firm up their strategies.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Abenomics Meme


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.
Mimosa: There’s such a word?
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.