Memetic consensus (as over the meaning of words, or proper names for places/people) is wilder and more intricate than formal consensus
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You can vote all you want on a name for the first decade of the 2000s but there still won’t be a name for it
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Nobody voted on what things are called - people who needed to refer to them just gave them nicknames until one stuck
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It feels like you’re saying something deep but in this form it sounds like a truism


