> At times, Asparouhova suggests that antimemes are specific proposals, like the importance of extended parental leave, in perennial lack of a lasting constitue

> At times, Asparouhova suggests that antimemes are specific proposals, like the importance of extended parental leave, in perennial lack of a lasting constituency to sustain them. This particular line struck me given that I recently listened after listening to the Lex Fridman podcast with Cenk Uygur [0] Uygur made the following point: "More than 80% of the US voting population supports paid parental leave yet Congress won't vote on it/pass it. Why? B/c Congress has become captured by corporatism and it's not in the best interests of corporations to have paid parental leave" Earlier, there is this quote: > Why can’t we manage to solve these big, obvious collective-action problems? Why, in other words, can’t we have nice things? I wonder why people ask these questions, almost rhetorically, when the answer is that well organized groups have made conscious decisions and taken real action to modify government/laws etc to do this. e.g. if one group could do this, why don't more groups do this? (on a related note, the talk by James D’Angelo, “The Ghost Bill & The Cardboard Box” [1] about how Congress became more tied to corporations is fascinating) 0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJtPROVsePk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJtPROVsePk (Lex Fridman) 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz27n1tNNMg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz27n1tNNMg (Ghost bill)