the moment i see two people respond with the same joke in response to a tweet, that joke is dead to me and so are those people
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the whole thing becomes grotesque for a split second. like the people become very clearly puppets of memetic forces beyond their understanding, and whatever is generating the words they type it isn't them
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We're all deeply influenced by memetic (& many other) forces beyond our understanding. Here we are, using the same set of 37 alphanumeric (+ space) characters! The same 44 phonemes. Etc. Is there a difference in grotesquerie?
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(BTW, I love your observation! Related: I s'times think of Reddit as a kind of efficient market for all possible obvious responses to something. Just scroll down & all the obvious comments will be made somewhere. It's a machine for generating the convex hull of obvious responses.
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I feel this way recently spending time with my sister, who I haven't seen much of in ten years, having the same body language as me. It's unsettling
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I’m not averse to throwing a few dumb memes around myself. Probably a bit mean of me, but I use them to laugh at my irritation at others’ imperviousness to their own invisible mimetic display.
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Memetic shadow practice
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The world would be pretty bland if we weren't all flavored with spicy memes :D
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