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it's used for "cool" "powerful" and "posing for photos"

Fun fact - a specific term for a counterclockwise swastika is sauwastika

I think a meme is only really a meme while it grows and lives and is recontextualized, what I posted doesn't really count as a meme, as I'm doing nothing to recontextualize the idea. it's merely a reference

reversed it's usually used for "sexy"

Funnily enough language is a meme which is why the word meme has been able to evolve as new uses for it were found to be useful.

in that case it's the only useful meme i can think of

Memes as the term was originally intended are the genes of culture.

ewwwww.

"Genes of culture"

Ewwwwwwww

You actually said that eewwwwww

i'm not a big fan of culture, except when i agree with it

That's the simplest way to describe it as conceptualized by Richard Dawkins.

could there theoretically be a society without a culture?

Basically the thinking is that ideas that get spread throughout society, and useless and harmful ideas are discarded and useful ones are kept and improved upon, so our ideas go through a process of natural selection

I guess a society could exist without a dominant or unifying culture, but that would just mean plenty of subcultures

i guess

On the subject of memetics, reminder that Kojima was a prophet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKPDaiJTX9M

thats some interesting narrative and points, but some of the conclusions give me cancer, probably mostly intended to support whatever the story is

It's a bit more esoteric than MGS, but the 1983 cult classic Videodrome is eerily accurate on a lot of points, only it's predictions were for TV, not Internet

havent seen that one in a long time, might rewatch with that perspective

If you're talking about the conclusion of the dudes on the left they're the bad guys.

yeah i figured

unfortunately i grew up with the wrong consoles so i still haven't experienced the whole franchise

Oh MGS2's prediction of censorship is goddamn spooky

But at least there they explain the benevolent intentions of it

'IT'S NOT CENSORSHIP, IT'S CONTEXT.'

I never heard the evil person's point of view how it wasn't evil until then. u:

it's interesting to read books by the elite

or just weird papers by think tanks

Remember in Metal gear rising:Revengance when the senator said he wanted to get rid of the limp dick beaurcrats and “Make America great again.”

Shits fucking crazy

Remember in Metal Wolf Chaos when the president of the United States piloted a mech against an attempted coup?

Shit... Trump may have a mech and there may be a coup

trumps biggest weapon is probably just his twitter account

Eh?

A wall to surpass China’s