The 3-Legged Stool

[Polish_Silver]

What is a meme?

As brevity is the soul of wit you'd think that the 140 character limit may constrain tweeters to witty remarks. Quite the opposite.



As I learn more about it and Facebook and LinkedIn, all of which I've used albeit not enthusiastically for years, it becomes more apparent to me how much these media reinforce beliefs and segment the world into ever smaller ideological social units that I call memegroups.

I've never seen a definition of meme.

How about this:

Meme:
A self serving belief or statement, which cannot be verified by publicly available information.

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I thinked LinkedIn's mistake was trying to be more like facebook. The idea "more connections is better". The idea should have been: "only quality connections". I am getting linked in requests from people in Australia I have never met. The more connections, the less useful the whole network is.

[don]

Re: What is a meme?

I'm not on twitter. Can someone copy paste this insight?

[Slimprofits]

Re: What is a meme?

I'm not on twitter. Can someone copy paste this insight?

You can bookmark a link to EJ's account and view what he posts without having a Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/ejanszen/status/...387330/photo/1

[don]

Re: What is a meme?

thanks Slim

[Slimprofits]

Re: The 3-Legged Stool

As I learn more about it and Facebook and LinkedIn, all of which I've used albeit not enthusiastically for years, it becomes more apparent to me how much these media reinforce beliefs and segment the world into ever smaller ideological social units that I call memegroups.

The internet is a tool that humans can use to extremely efficiently feed into our confirmation biases and neatly (albeit quite often incorrectly) categorize every appearance that comes before us.

[Slimprofits]

Re: What is a meme?

thanks Slim

I think I posted a link to a tweet other than the one EJ was referring to, but since his account is public, you should be able to see the others.

[don]

PC Roberts Two Steps Forward, One Step Back Paul Craig Roberts One can only wonder why Putin doesn’t preempt the coming US military attack on Russia by destroying NATO economically without firing a shot. All Putin needs to do is to cut Europe off from energy. It would take Washington three years to create the capability to deliver US natural gas, achieved by fracking’s destruction of US water supplies, to Europe. By that time NATO governments would likely have been overthrown by mass unemployment and economic suffering. Putin could also seize all foreign assets in Russia and rapidly complete the arrangements with China, India, Brazil, and South Africa to abandon the use of the US dollar in international settlements. The US dollar as world reserve currency is the source of American imperialism. The five countries that comprise the BRICS have half of the world’s population. They can conduct their economic affairs without the dollar.

[LazyBoy]

Re: The 3-Legged Stool

QUOTE Whatever tentacles Wall Street may have wrapped around the White House, Capital Hill, and the US judiciary; Big Oil still rules the roost. The Apostles of the Fossil are the oldest and most powerful club in Washington, and “What they say, goes”.

What do folks here think about this statement? Is Big Oil more powerful than Wall Street?

[Slimprofits]

Re: The 3-Legged Stool

What do folks here think about this statement? Is Big Oil more powerful than Wall Street?

Criss-cross investment http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=xom+Major+Holders criss-cross boards of directors: http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/i...ctors/overview Members of Exxon's BoD are also currently serving on the Boards of AMEX, JPM, Goldman and Credit Suisse.

[ProdigyofZen]

Re: The 3-Legged Stool

Who finances big oil? ...........