wyrdautumn said: The concept of memes was first proposed by Richard Dawkins in a book called "The Selfish Gene." Dawkins, a biologist, stated that even if the actions of a living thing appear to be altruistic each of its genes is still engaging in selfish behavior--purely as a matter of survival. He went on to define memes as a different kind of self-replicating unit. They're the genes of a culture, from fashion to chord progressions in music... even political expression. And, just like normal genes, they replic
I think the term “dank memes” is actually kinda funny. Did Dawkins come up with that?