We’re Just Here for the Memes #
March 4th, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
Or so says Susan Blackmore. That title, by the way, means that humans serve no purpose than to propagate trends and ideas, or “memes“ — which, by the way, is a word I’ve never liked much.
What culture is doing, what the memesphere is doing, is taking a human being and infecting it with masses of new information and exploiting its tendencies. We are being turned from ordinary old-fashioned meme machines into what I call “teme” machines — machines for copying technological information, spreading photos and printed words and digital files.
(via kottke.org)