I am aware of all Internet traditions

[Farren]

A meme is born (http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2008/06/thanks-to-911-shes-outraged-by.html), for those who like to follow this sort of thing, in the comments section of the linked blog.

The boxer shorts, thong, tracksuit, hoodie, sweatshirt and t-shirts (http://www.cafepress.com/InternetTraditi) are already available from cafe press. Talk about fast propagation.

[LadyShea]

vanderleun seems like a droid or an alien trying to understand human conventions.

What you are claiming is that you made an acceptable precise of the posting by neoneocon.

[Farren]

He does come across a bit like a Dalek. What he is is a right wing nut job who previously gained brief notoriety in the blogosphere for mocking a left wing blogger about her breast cancer in his blog.

I think some hard line right wingers are borderline Asperger's sufferers or sociopaths, lacking a lot of the basic human empathy most of us take for granted. I've picked up that consistently robotic style you describe in the posts of quite a few right wingers, especially those of the Objectivist stripe.

Conversely, I'm not making the error of assuming that Asperger's or sociopathic leanings makes someone a right-wing nutcase. Just that some who suffer from empathy deficiencies translate that intepersonal distance into right wing, selfish views.

[Watser?]

There is a link to this thread there too

It's like one of those paintings

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Droste.jpg

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Too Stupid, Didn't Finish Reading.

[viscousmemories]

I am aware of all internet traditions and also of literary conventions in which placing something in quotes or in a blockquote means that your are quoting that person.

Not that it makes much difference but he did qualify the statement. I prefer fact-based memes.

[Doctor X]

"Meme" is a word pretentious but stupid people use for "idea."

--J.D.

[oblomov]

may we also denounce those who use 'meta' as a word?

thanks.

[viscousmemories]

Judging someone as pretentious and stupid based solely on their use of a particular word (or phrase) is ironic. I understand that 'meme' theory is controversial, but I think it has value as shorthand for "catchy, pervasive idea" regardless. 'Meta' as shorthand for that something I can't even find words for is pretty useful too, imo.

So there, denounce away!

[oblomov]

:alarm: :alarm: :alarm: :alarm: :alarm: :alarm: :alarm: :alarm: :alarm: :alarm: :alarm: :alarm: :alarm: :alarm: :alarm:

[Dingfod]

may we also denounce those who use 'meta' as a word?

thanks.Damn my bolism.

[godfry n. glad]

So...I take it that around here, the phrase being immortalized is a warning of the arrival of a tighty righty?

[Corona688]

So...I take it that around here, the phrase being immortalized is a warning of the arrival of a tighty righty? Not sure it describes the particular political inclination but it sure is... well... weird. Robotic is a good descriptor. Alien is another. It's like he considers the internet some sort of literary form -- like some bizzare mutation of standard essay format which doesn't merely tolerate but demands grammar and annotations in Lolcat Standard Form.

[Farren]

"Meme" is a word pretentious but stupid people use for "idea."

--J.D.

No. Meme is a word people use to mean a viral idea that propagates rapidly, thus distinguishing such ideas from common or garden ideas that don't. i.e. its a useful refinement.

Also, meme is a very useful word for describing the ideas that inform atypical sexual selection in high-communication species (specifically when compulsions which arose accidentally from successful gene-propagation strategies are overriden by more deliberate cultural considerations), which is why Dawkins coined the phrase in the first place.

[Joshua Adams]

may we also denounce those who use 'meta' as a word?

thanks.
Can we denounce those who would denounce those who use 'meta' as a word?




Man, that was so meta.

[oblomov]

no, we may not.

[Qingdai]

:hoot:

As my son and Caligulette's son like to say, "We are going to investigate you and destroy you."

I am going for revisionist.