• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Not really, no.

    A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme

    The comic strip format could be characterized as a memetic style of communication that has spread by imitation from person to person.

    Such is not true of ferns, for example.

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      5 months ago

      The idea of ferns, as a decorative plant, is most definitely a meme.

      However you are right that ferns, as a lifeform, fall under the category of genes.

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                    You’re mixing a lot of unrelated concepts here.

                    Just because authoritarians pretend that the status quo is inevitable and immutable doesn’t mean that reality itself is a human invention made to justify it and other assumptions.

                    Likewise, conflating defeatism disguised as realism with the concept of reality itself is not just a giant leap of logic. It’s a giant leap AWAY from anything resembling logical thought.