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They're referencing a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bill-oreilly-you-cant-explain-that https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bill-oreilly-you-cant-explain...
by cercatrova 4y ago
They're referencing a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bill-oreilly-you-cant-explain-that https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bill-oreilly-you-cant-explain...
- PaulHoule 4y agoI am writing a sci-fi story about some astronauts who visit a planet that used to have intelligent life that invented memes... Then the planet still had life but no intelligence.
- cercatrova 4y agoThe plot seems unrealistic then, based on human history, at least as portrayed through the book Sapiens. The author notes that it is through the memetic exchange of ideas that we created civilizations and took over the planet.
- PaulHoule 4y agoTo be specific I'm talking about those image memes. "Memes" as an explanation for the collective software of the human species is not such a bad idea. Here is some art, music and poetry by Burroughs and Anderson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvOoR8m0oms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvOoR8m0oms
- greenie_beans 4y agomemes are great. it's cool how memes create their own symbols and shift language and communication. i'm no linguist and know nothing about the field, but it's like memes create their own symbols to explain things/are derivative of other memes, and you've gotta be able to speak the language to understand it. it's like watching evolution in real time.
- reducesuffering 4y agoIt's origin is because Bill O'Reilly's explanation for why God exists is because the tide goes in and out like clockwork, and can't be explained? JFC