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But then like, isn't everything a meme? .. then nothing is a meme... woaaahhh
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.
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.
Actually, ferns are a social construct.
You MAY be thinking of femmes 😁
Those are a social construct too, because everything is.
I think you might be confusing "social construct" for "things that there's a word for" 😄
No, reality is socially constructed, sociologists have been saying that for ages and it's true. http://soulism.net
Oh. You're one of the "reality is not real" kooks 🙄
We're just far enough left to see that "hierarchies aren't self justifying" extends to reality too. We don't accept realist defeatism. Realism is an infant ideology of avoiding responsibility for reality, and saying "it's not my fault, it's reality".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Construction_of_Reality
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.
Reality isn't fake because it's defeatist, it just happens to be both fake and defeatist. It's fake because it was invented by rich white men in the 1600s to justify colonialism. And it's defeatist because most people today acknowledge those rich assholes were wrong about how the world should be, but not about how it is.
Sick meme