>"silence is violence" To me this might be the best example of a 'meme', in Dawkins' sense of the word, that I'm aware of. - It's short - It rhymes - It giv

>"silence is violence" To me this might be the best example of a 'meme', in Dawkins' sense of the word, that I'm aware of. - It's short - It rhymes - It gives new territory to a powerful word - It creates an in-group signal - It's self-amplifying, and most importantly - It's ridiculous It's absolutely destined to go far beyond it's own merit by outcompeting everything in its domain on 3+ metrics. It also helped me understand one possible reason why so many broken slogans are rising to the top. There are many factors in totality of course, but the ones that are ridiculous drive engagement from everyone, the proponents to echo and the opponents to mock.