Originally posted by lasersailor184
What the **** is a meme? I tried to read the wiki article, but got no where.
Aren't you up on your GURPS Transhuman Space?
A Meme is a cognitive or behavior pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another; religions, philosophies, languages (including slang), morals, traditions, stories, fashions, and fads.
Memetics therefore is a
"subfield of psychology, focusing on the semantic content of ideas and the means by which they can be most efficiently spread through human populations".
Think of "sound bites" as an example. You say the same few words over and over and over, until people take it as fact or truth. The current American Presidential Administration has taken this to a low art (high art would require some subtlety on their part).
Little Joey Goebbels would understand.
Other examples could be the cell phone as a status symbol and fashion.
It's a very wide topic, and somewhat appropriate topic within a Wiki thread.
As to Wiki reinventing history, that is the extreme minority of what is found in Wiki. Most of Wiki is blatant plagiarism and copywrite violation.
