While Richard Dawkin’s neologism has ironically gone viral and is often overused, it will do to describe a fundamental structure of collective human life, the construction and spread of collective mythologies. Your essay brilliantly captures how we all live in meme-vile and as Pogo sau, “we have met the enemy and he is us.” You’re spot on when you say. “They are the manifestation of humanity’s need to cling to clear and permanent archetypal symbols in an era where past, present, and future continuously collapse into themselves in the eternal digital flow, and nothing truly makes sense.” Love your postmodernist flair,  although I’m wary of postmodernism’s ( a meme in which I am part) excesses - after all, there is~ something outside of the text .
While Richard Dawkin’s neologism has ironically gone viral and is often overused, it will do to describe a fundamental structure of collective human life, the construction and spread of collective mythologies. Your essay brilliantly captures how we all live in meme-vile and as Pogo sau, “we have met the enemy and he is us.” You’re spot on when you say. “They are the manifestation of humanity’s need to cling to clear and permanent archetypal symbols in an era where past, present, and future continuously collapse into themselves in the eternal digital flow, and nothing truly makes sense.” Love your postmodernist flair,  although I’m wary of postmodernism’s ( a meme in which I am part) excesses - after all, there is~ something outside of the text .
You think this article has postmodernist vibes then? Mh
WOW!! This (your explanation) makes sooo much sense. Wait - it is supposed to make sense right??? :)
Beautifully captures this moment in time.
Yes, the Roman Empire and demise crosses this mind quite often.
Does it even matter if the explanation makes sense, when everything doesn't make sense at all?
Touche`