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The Meme Merchant: What is a Meme?

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Trading in exotic ideas since 2013. What is a Meme? An idea, behaviour, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. A meme acts as a unit for carrying ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What is a Meme?

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The Meme Merchant: July 2015

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Trading in exotic ideas since 2013. Wednesday, July 1, 2015. In the Service of Madness. I was chatting with a friend about the events in Charleston the other day when he bluntly stated: "I'm racist.". Not against any one ethnic or cultural group," he added. "I'm racist against humans in general. I think we're the stupidest fucking animals on the planet.". My friend cited climate change and atom bombs as evidence of our stupidity but I see these as evidence of our vast and powerful intellect. What good is...

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The Meme Merchant: December 2014

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Trading in exotic ideas since 2013. Friday, December 26, 2014. Said by the Weary. Abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace.". I've had some unpleasant jobs in the past. I've had filthy, mind-numbing, labor intensive gigs that sucked the life right out of me. I've had dangerous jobs where a misstep or moment of inattention could result in missing fingers or a 100-foot fall. As it turns out, my discovery was no discovery at all. Philosophers from east and west have been ...

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The Meme Merchant: Reading List

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Trading in exotic ideas since 2013. Here's a list of the books I've read over the last few years. The ones in bold. Are books I re-read on a regular basis, either every couple of years or more. Eckhart Tolle - Power of Now. Aldous Huxley - Perennial Philosophy. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations. Joseph Campbell - Hero with a Thousand Faces. Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet. Viktor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning. Carl Jung - Man and his Symbols. James Allen - As a Man Thinketh. Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching. Lucretius...

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The Meme Merchant: January 2015

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Trading in exotic ideas since 2013. Monday, January 19, 2015. Two Cent Rant: Islamophobia. The Prophet said, 'There are some who see me by the same light in which I am seeing them. Our natures are one. Without reference to any strands of lineage, without reference to texts or traditions, we drink the life-water together. While gunshots were still ringing inside the offices of Charlie Hebdo. One could already hear the cries:. Islam is savage and barbaric and hateful! Here, I'll get you started. Let's take...

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The Meme Merchant: Hipocrites

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Trading in exotic ideas since 2013. Friday, August 7, 2015. I've always wanted to try cat. What I mean is, I've always wanted to eat. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I suspect I've already eaten my fair share (along with everyone else who eats Chinese take-out). Maybe it's because cats are little assholes who think they're sooooo. Much better than everyone else. I don't know why. But I really want to eat one. Go look in the mirror. You see that look of disgust and outrage on your face? In some cultu...

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The Meme Merchant: May 2015

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Trading in exotic ideas since 2013. Friday, May 29, 2015. Joe Oliver's Master Plan. Remember how I tore a strip off Tom Mulcair for being fake and contrived? I admit I was being a little harsh. A friend of mine accused me of being an idealist and I agree. I get why politicians need teleprompters and scripts, to some extent. Not everyone can say what they believe eloquently. I certainly can't. I need to rehearse or risk putting my foot directly into my mouth. Believe me, I'm very. Let's improve mental hea...

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The Meme Merchant: Question

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Trading in exotic ideas since 2013. Monday, June 29, 2015. It is taught that there is a Way of Heaven, a Way of Earth, and a Way of man. This last is the way ordained by nature from which it is always unwise and often perilous to depart. As to the present time, the gulf between nature's way for man and man's way for himself is now widening so rapidly that our very environment is threatened with destruction! Taoism: The Road to Immortality. Is there such a thing as "human nature? A mix of both? Do you agr...

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The Meme Merchant: June 2015

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Trading in exotic ideas since 2013. Monday, June 29, 2015. It is taught that there is a Way of Heaven, a Way of Earth, and a Way of man. This last is the way ordained by nature from which it is always unwise and often perilous to depart. As to the present time, the gulf between nature's way for man and man's way for himself is now widening so rapidly that our very environment is threatened with destruction! Taoism: The Road to Immortality. Is there such a thing as "human nature? A mix of both? Do you agr...