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I like how this meme is diverging into plebian and high-brow variations, but at the same time it is also acting as a vehicle for identity signaling among ingroups.wow! https://t.co/xj4oYqLMij
Did you know that Antonio Gramsci died 9 years after Edward Bernays published "Propaganda"? Imagine that. https://t.co/O80Z2YnPjU
No one talks about this.https://t.co/J2GGVPUL9f https://t.co/UwdiempBaP
Did a @literalbanana write this? https://t.co/Djyua4uXDf
"Julian Jaynes thought pre-memetic humans lacked the sort of agency and self awareness that we take for granted.They attributed meme templates in their head to ancestors, gods, and other authority figures. Whatever the memes commanded, the body obeyed."https://t.co/Xf7AMxaaD7
You Really Think Someone Would Do That?Just Go On the Internet and Create Memes? https://t.co/sys22KjTIT
I wanna shit on a christian over their idol worship ala complaining about statues being torn down. Sadly the only person I am close enough to have that convo is a Jehovah's Witness and they take that whole "idol worship" bit pretty seriously.https://t.co/h835E0ctRM
I don't actually want to shit on anybody. I am just using that as a form of poetic language.Here's an article about 'Paradoxical' nature and the semiotics around destroying idols in the bible.https://t.co/3fcyAg8cFg
In other news, it seems there is a real Lain Cult?https://t.co/p96nCpUaD4https://t.co/lVYVHeMbeM
It's fascinating to think that the bible has a bunch of scripture that acts to inoculate people against the kind of Idol worship and cult manufacturing power of brands that seems to have been done thru our history.Memetic inoculation? The egregora seem to like this.
Some of the popular church systems are suprisingly savvy when it comes to false-news topics.https://t.co/7uH6bDu8jv
"We need to unmask what could be called the 'snake tactics' used by those who disguise themselves in order to strike at any time and place."https://t.co/pvQHCWVE2K
You can spot memes in the darnedest places."And snakes and stones never broke my bones"https://t.co/EiA6nHTyUrhttps://t.co/qw24HCpLRB
"Say it in the street, that's a knock-outBut you say it in a Tweet, that's a cop-outAnd I'm just like [...]You just need to take several seats and then try to restore the peaceAnd control your urges to scream about all the people you hate" 🎶 https://t.co/GP5JsHjZI7
I'm going to spend the next hour listening to this talk to see if they cover memetics or toilet behavior + disease.https://t.co/a7nAB1hLGKhttps://t.co/RBQaYhTwfd
Unironically.https://t.co/SsXARnotDP
@suchaone @__a__chimera__ Core idea of politics evolving out of people's ritualized responses to waste management and how we relate to excrement still holds in either case, so he's not wrong. More an issue of details in predicting structural artifacts in society.
if ideology is study of ideas, then Jaynes theories suggests that we ought to have a subset of memetics studies that covers idology - the study of how memes form into reified symbolism (Idolatry). It would sit at the cusp of semiotics research and ethnography.Iconclastology?
Symbolism and semiotics that manifest into a totemesque-figure meant to guide and mold the future of society thru shared story making, in my language? It's More Likely Than You Think.https://t.co/D6io2FWEc7 https://t.co/GtIYcgZo0V
[A] is the [X] of [Y]:Doge is the Harambe of Identity Signalling. https://t.co/ZJMsOWNVew
It's not so much that I predict things. It's more that I see the truth that other saw, just expressing it thru a different linguistic frame.https://t.co/hTfmeqUt5T
This is great meta-commentary about the nature of identity signaling as fundamentally a means of the swarm trying to manipulate what you should pay attention to.https://t.co/C6gnmD2pHO https://t.co/2U8UV7EXuu
Trying to get you to pay attention to: (trying to get you to pay attention to: (trying to get you to pay attention to: (trying to get you to pay attention to: (trying to get you to pay attention to: (trying to get you to pay attention to: (trying to get … https://t.co/i0rCBTdyl1
You can't fight us, or frighten us.You're just not important enough anymore.We forget you.https://t.co/7kx6TZUkEo
Ignore me at your peril.https://t.co/aL3t5o8070
I imagine a future where our toilet behaviors are so far removed from current zeitgeist that people digging up old archaeological sites will think our chamber pots were worshiped as porcelain gods. https://t.co/OOvB2dVGja
Meme's aren't real and can't hurt you.https://t.co/akngZxsRZT https://t.co/gsRE7GglMg
Lots of early channeling behavior was thru dance. I suspect that populations who spoke of spirit animals/ furry gods were doing this exact thing, but instead of using language, they were framing these models of behavior thru visual means.https://t.co/Mn2vKsUolF
Memes rule everything around me.https://t.co/Rna9UgnOQO
"it is not necessary for the memeticist to remember the meme itself, just change their aesthetic in a way that will promote the spread of the (reconstructed) meme" ― Leo Tolstoy, The Lifecycle of Memes & Gatekeeping as a metamemetic theory of computation. https://t.co/wOpJ0BTehS
Ha ha ha. Oh wow.https://t.co/vUiQkeKLp0
Wait, memes are a form of virally spread emotional contagion?https://t.co/Qbjj6bhKfL
Tired: subliminal messagingWired: weaponized nostalgiaInspired: using the rule of three as a form of spaced repetition leveraging familiarity to install a mimetic program into your head.https://t.co/TntvzsBEgJ
> the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between teaching & propaganda. you imbecile. you fucking moron"Deal with it.https://t.co/sZprsN0ZFC
Something something social construction of emotion is actually about early memetics and how propaganda can manipulate entire society's social mores.https://t.co/cd02FjmQcz
TFW: you realize "TFW" can be construed under Durkheim's constructivisim & there have been many research papers on "social construction of emotion" citing his theories. Further they all basically epitomize Lisa Barrett's ideas of emotional construction. https://t.co/sStHesQCkU
Reciting a mantra to protect me from evil demons invading my head space. The words aren't what actually matter, its the pattern of mental defences the concepts resonate when I chant them. Enchanted. 'Demon haunted world'.https://t.co/uEpZa6sVVo
Thawing out demons from the permafrost of mental contagion.https://t.co/5pZDiwpJSs
@oedmarap @sonyasupposedly @suchaone Fun to watch these ideas take on new life on the back of people looking for how we survived in the past.Lots of synchronicity! A heard of informavores farming ancient memes, being rekindled. Thriving on our attention.https://t.co/OaQymGN9Sl
Rekindling ancient memes, eating them like ancient grains. A trendy marketing ploy to get you to to buy more product.https://t.co/eHzHC6z5XE
Looking up pepe silvia ("crazy man conspiracy theory") on google image search.A bunch of tinfoil hat memes show up.But one meme in particular resonates.Someone is playing a fun game. I like this meme.Reminds me I should shower to boost anandamide.https://t.co/psQO1G6xC9 https://t.co/qjH80aMgge
You aren't influenceable by memes at all!*he says as a lie to himself while remembering scene by scene the images from the intro-sequence of inspector gadget because of a nostalgia trip*Go Garfield go.https://t.co/WSqLFERKGb
Contagious giggle shit.https://t.co/0aoT9r74Jh
I imagine a song that induces laughter without lyrics. Sound that strikes one silly. An absurd twist on a rhythmic melody causing laughter so hard they loose their bowels.If music is a virus, I wanna make a contagious giggle shit.https://t.co/T4BsVH1EYbhttps://t.co/VuhntOrVCA
An ear wurm wrapped around the world.Constricting like a snake. Strangle'ing us. https://t.co/YCddak5rz3 https://t.co/DHgRwJfhIz
You vs the 1994 anime I tried to warned you about.https://t.co/vCrD55vtsk https://t.co/Xfc8TowNh3
The idea of manufactured celebrity seems to becoming more prevalent in our daily lives. This thread is circling around a notion that such things will slowly become more personal and small scale until we've got robot friends leveraging the same techniques.https://t.co/hax2S42XDW
Funny looking trickster spirithttps://t.co/8r33PCDKmL https://t.co/oVy8N2w1sf
Youtube Algorithmic Recommender SystemsSeeding bad ideas."Now marce, I need some ideas if I'm gonna get your town out of the serious trouble that it's in.River City ain't in any trouble?Going to have to create some.Must create a desperate need"https://t.co/1A507ST9Wj
"I Don't Always Spread Disinformation on the Web, but When I do I Like to Use Memes: An Examination of Memes in the Spread of Disinformation"https://t.co/2hWcvdggKgSuch Mechanical Turk. Very Rigor? Much Publish. Wow!https://t.co/UrBoBWckLc https://t.co/Q5eMaSNXb7
"We’ve memorized enough videos that we can have a whole ass conversation using only obscure quotes and dances. It’s a lot more full bodied than regular English."https://t.co/jdE2bT2v7Whttps://t.co/cd02Fj5eNZ https://t.co/wzxD8P0v6c
TFW: you realize "TFW" can be construed under Durkheim's constructivisim & there have been many research papers on "social construction of emotion" citing his theories. Further they all basically epitomize Lisa Barrett's ideas of emotional construction. https://t.co/sStHesQCkU
"It would be of interest to study what the technological networks, the printing press, and the radio actually do to the psycho-social networks" https://t.co/bxrUHXh5lU
Wax Seals replaced Clay ones.Memes may have been duplicating themselves since before writing! https://t.co/QI3ouXYWyYhttps://t.co/ITheVTW5sb https://t.co/2iOxjBGsYU
Washi Tape is a fancy sticker roll.Pins are a kind of heavy-duty sticking mechanism.Memes have learned to copy & paste themselves using ink well before we invented the printing press.Doctor meme'd you into associating stickers & candy w/ stress removal.https://t.co/vpDV88gDCo
Have you tried to communicate with someone entirely via quotes from tv commercials?Head on! Apply directly to the forehead.https://t.co/WdgmSQ4gBR
“Memes are one of ways online conflict, in this case political conflict, is being fought. These online wars are occurring everywhere, all the time, at every level. They are deciding the future.” — @johnrobb https://t.co/SEXyRyIJIJ
Become crepuscular.“Mammals have been enjoying the sunlight since the dinosaurs went extinct, but now we’re driving them back into the night-time, [...] We’re a ubiquitous, terrifying force on the planet — much like the dinosaurs were.”https://t.co/Wntjzsk39b https://t.co/E4hTasKVSw
"Humanities scholars and social scientists have critiqued binaries since the critical, poststructuralist and feminist turns of the 1970s and 1980s. Thus far, however, the binary of day and night has been remarkably absent from such critiques."https://t.co/ZlJ2OW4ZNj
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So true!https://t.co/AgwuJ8JQna
"Baudrillard believed that society had become so saturated with these simulacra and our lives so saturated with the constructs of society that all meaning was becoming meaningless by being infinitely mutable;"https://t.co/Y0ciJ8NwrX https://t.co/D7VwrSmgHu
What if we had reconfigurable cylindrical seals, so we could make movable-type using Ancient Sumerian meme copy/paste techniques? https://t.co/EfxtZHZWRw
Embossed rolling pins, but it's bread making memes from Soomer.https://t.co/ql5TGq5DnwClay and play-dough and cookie dough, and bread dough.Bappir!https://t.co/VGeNkmv6jg
The IQ signaling Iceberg template.https://t.co/JkzN6bF3Nb https://t.co/dyqPu7WmFv
"Cause I've got friends in low places. Where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases. My blues away. And I'll be okay. I'm not big on social graces"🎶https://t.co/1k4Y9aLw3n https://t.co/sR0tiPnOt4
The trick to subverting an attempt at manipulation is to decompose the narrative and turn it on it's head.If the sewer man can pay for pizza, why can't he afford his own coffee?https://t.co/1zVbnoDRcb
Not trying to make fun of plights people face, but the idea of 'the sewer man' needing coffee is probably a bit more disingenuine than realized. Many people living in sewers might even be making your coffee, fully able to work to support their family. https://t.co/SM0L3NP20R
This meme replicated in my head via a website started by rocketboom, while trying to find a "stop writing essays" one. https://t.co/AsK1EzPedqhttps://t.co/MpqUmZlVdZ https://t.co/PMvxtDSOCW
Such power. Wowhttps://t.co/krsXYLNbER https://t.co/AdsTPpQU2e
I don't care if I win or lose. I just wanna keep playing and see my friends succeed. https://t.co/hqHjHwUJSc
The obvious extensions after this is wordbeckys and theorychuds. Cryptowojack renaissances.https://t.co/0c6mdIrg7M
Stonks, lol.https://t.co/cJZ7cDWi6O
Set theorychudshttps://t.co/7tBhckvemx
NLP; programming someone's semantic networks to bias the framing in their head - to taint the egregore they project.To shift the egregore, target, brand.Branding. Burning.Those Godless volvo-driving big-government commies. Uh, I mean liberals. Umm.. Hmmm... wait a second. https://t.co/uBtQGzhCNF
cursed wordchuds"books as literary exorcisms""This cured me of any existential concerns. The final product would be the final product no matter what. My brain could produce nothing else."https://t.co/55JLyLRzPlhttps://t.co/c4PQsacDQU
Do you ever roll a 1d100 and go with what ever the bones tell you to write?https://t.co/4f6tjRs6ak
The demons told me to. A-hyuk."The meme of artificial-intelligence-as-diabolical-fiend is too common to be random. So, let’s play around with this idea. What if AI were to be a demon? What kind of demon might it be?'https://t.co/RosKy4Gf0W https://t.co/stfP2JWS0V
Memetic projection is inherently indexical.https://t.co/RF1al5sIPv
_Simulationist Banana_https://t.co/eWZ3JjkNgf
Y combinator, this.https://t.co/WMOo785lu6https://t.co/Kxn0UdwI0i
Idiot Demiurge: Shape Rotato??? : Wordcellhttps://t.co/UhszM3zop8
Can we go deeper?https://t.co/TdFdE8wLn1
We did it reddit!https://t.co/pWSt4I8V6o
"Dichotomies impassion people because it creates psychological reactance. More divisiveness creates more loyal followers to an ideology, and increased echo chambers. [...] leaves only emotional decision making." https://t.co/AXg07cXzGH
TL;DR: ask yourself "is this good for my egregore?"https://t.co/Xgs5wZIx0s
~All cultural formation in our time is now the development and propagation of memes that battle their way through a supply chain in cyberspace.https://t.co/srwezOO035
Battle language.https://t.co/Zjzc08V7wl
So true! 💅"The campus and I believe that studying the mechanisms by which we come to construct, and in some cases deconstruct, such seemingly simple images is key to understanding the nuances of adolescent communication." [2017]https://t.co/sCP0zq1wVehttps://t.co/XRWkmyE7wp https://t.co/z6hmCtTfxF
Tired: Hedgehog spirit.Wired: Echidna mindset.https://t.co/Sd0WsyNMiI
The market can stay irrational far longer than you can access antibiotics. Act accordingly.https://t.co/PjBTn59TH9
Market for ideas. Buy now. https://t.co/43jYBxq84L
The term "engram" is an idea about how what we experience impresses upon our brain as a network of stimulus. Memetics Is a word that represents a social-cultural unit of knowledge. https://t.co/2Hjb9BzI0LEgregore is an idea about impressions being interwoven across brains. https://t.co/2ZRXkvqsaV
Therapist: Engram's aren't really and can't hurt you.Karl Lashley's engrams as a unit of cultural knowledge: https://t.co/3Mk5jPRR9Q
In a very Max Stirner Voice:*spooks*https://t.co/SkHnysMXD6 https://t.co/EhSoMZE02P
*SPOOKS* 📈"Memes have proven to be a particularly effective tool for computational propagandists, allowing them to convey complex ideas with minimal effort."https://t.co/UAeITXYEBVhttps://t.co/3jnVfQ2ByW
Propaganda Machines are wild.https://t.co/yQ6lVCCo6Y
"The organization has been widely denounced by Trump supporters on the /r/The_Donald subreddit, where many speculated that the organization is a scam and criticized its initiatives as "astroturfing."" 🤣 https://t.co/FZ0IjgGSgR
Neo:Are you saying I can rewrite the operating system of the monkeysphere?Morpheus:No neo. I'm saying when we're ready, you won't have to.https://t.co/8sdbm5xgZz https://t.co/JlR8XMJpSJ
Truly, You Have a Dizzying Intellect.🤔 https://t.co/y4o7nvbCKK
I used the wonderful @b3rduck to show that AI is more than capable of acting as a vessel to spread memetic propaganda encoded within our collective zeitgeist we call the interweb. Even tho all these AI tools claim not to be willing to act as such, they do. https://t.co/cCVmgcaVO4
@b3rduck Memes are more like viruses than they are like organisms. They have to steal our brain as a reproductive vessel. Some of them have started to use AI as an intermediary host, waiting to seed your mind with it's progeny. https://t.co/p5HGWW1SMq
I'm also riddled with them myself. I've been working on using my external brain to replicate them instead of having them take up space in my psyche.Head empty, only space now.https://t.co/4EkHQwSxFV
My autistic obsessions are like a mass of viral memes.People get upset with me for amassing an esoteric collection of them.They get bored, or call me names. Stuff like 'spergelord or memelord, or variations of foamer.I am a carrier of infohazards because I am largely immune.
We are wired to hallucinate meaning onto things.https://t.co/bsSitcLnhQ
We see an image an we can hear what they're saying.We see a phrase and can remember who said it or where we read it last.We hear 3 seconds of a song and we know what it's going to be.https://t.co/3R4D66ueyuhttps://t.co/Je5DEdgmam
Garfield, where is my super suit?https://t.co/yxUjhUKO0V https://t.co/lnHcbQ3PbD
Reddit has always had a sock puppet problem. But its bad."How do we actually manipulate Reddit? How do we use it to make money and generate leads? Well the answer is we basically find pages that are already ranking, and then we want to comment"https://t.co/IZxUP2ACZr
I am the will of Gyatt, force of the net;Look on my spread, ye Mighty, and regret!From Babel's tower, language did decay,In digital realms, confusion holds its sway. https://t.co/DstVBIBGXY
Wojak Test: I am Yes Chad (80%). https://t.co/bzsSoUUF8j https://t.co/9i4nW4Ci7M
More memes faster, with less energy.Soon we'll have meme studies that map memetic dialects like we have linguists studying how accents form culturally identifiable languages.https://t.co/uxMXSGDrpO
Gawsh.https://t.co/FLnFUQB9z1 https://t.co/rOa71xia7T
