Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Nov 21, 2020What’s something you care about and I probably don’t? Can you make me care in 1 tweet? 🤔44840
Venkatesh Rao@vgrI like isolated poems, but I haven’t yet learned to care about poetry as a human activity1:18 AM · Nov 21, 20209 Likes
Joel D (@joeld@Tilde.Zone) @joeld·Nov 21, 2020Replying to @vgrI think memes now occupy the cultural spot that poetry once had.Quote TweetJoel D (@joeld@Tilde.Zone) @joeld·Jul 2, 2019Poems are as portable/shareable as memes, have identical $ value to memes, but also are very like memes as a group cognitive technology. Exactly half of the enjoyment comes in sharing the experience once you’ve had it yourself. 6/7Show this thread1