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Will people have to "start with the memes" to understand literature in the future? Will memes become our new point of reference and major source of allusions, like the Bible once was, or Homer was for the Greeks and Romans?

>> No.6651843

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>> No.6651844

nah, 4chan culture is smaller and more squalid than you imagine it to be

>> No.6651852

>>6651844
This place is like Plato's cave.

You spend long enough staring at the shadows on the wall of animals and men, it becomes difficult to even conceptualise the principles on which the outside world operates.

>> No.6651855

>>6651844
Memes are part of redditt, tumblr and facebook culture as well

>> No.6651872

>>6651855
In ten years they'll have been supplanted by the next big fads.

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>>6651844
Memes aren't exclusive to 4chan. They're a cultural phenomenon that's arguably existed for as long as any human communication has.
Even the writings of the Greeks are chock-full of memetics and memetic practice. Familiarizing yourself with history's foremost memes will be, if it already isn't, an important part of understanding any given piece of art.

Before the internet, the ever-expanding archive of everything human, it was very difficult to provide a complete resource of the contemporary culture. Future generations will be able to look back and note how 'memes' aided the progression of society as you know it.

200 years from now, some college grad will use massive database mapping software to record the spread of any given individual meme and see the meme's eventual decline.

As we speak, we are creating a time capsule of culture.

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>>6651893
>time capsule of culture

>> No.6651945

someone post that insane Dawkins vid

>> No.6652191

>>6651945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tIwYNioDL8

>> No.6652211

>>6652191
How can anyone take this guy seriously

>> No.6652232

>>6652211
His memes seemed pretty dank at the time.

>> No.6652234

>>6652211
i'd dig the shirt if it wasn't on dawkins

>> No.6652243

>>6652191
> this trashy, flashy, colorful, vaguely entertaining something is what scientists understand as art / creativity

>> No.6652251

I am pretty sure china cartoon meme will live on. It's basically a pre-Internet meme on it own. Now with China being ahead of Japan economically, even more parents will confuse anything asian their kids consume with China and not in the "le cheap copies" meme.

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>>6652243
>yfw even a literal meme scientist who can't into Aristotle understands postmodern irony and deconstruction better than most of /lit/

>> No.6653646

>>6651852
get out of the cave man