“What Memes Mean” Articles

“Each meme we share, whether intentionally or ironically, is at another vote for what Internet culture will become.”

“The memes that fascinate us reveal much about our passions and our values, what we as a culture love and allow—sort of our cultural heart.”

“If nothing is defined as sacred, eventually nothing will be treated as sacred—in this case, a human life.”

“What is the digital age and meme culture making our moments into?”

“We share this video because we still want marriage to work.”

Frictionless sharing can be problematic because it “takes away the secret place” where our ideas—and our souls—take shape.

“Temperament is an integral part of this calling, a fascinating divine ordainment. It is something to be praised, properly understood, and developed, and never an excuse to avoid personal growth.”

“But the larger idea of ‘beauty’ has an unavoidable element of subjectivity to it in most cases, which is one of the difficulties in defining art as wholly objective.”

“Why do we feel we have the right to re-appropriate anything we want in the digital realm, even an entire person?”

“Quite a few of these photo-caption memes are quite regrettable, even embarrassing.”

“It appears that meme is something you just can’t force.”

“Why do so many people hate #KONY2012, Jason Russell, and Invisible Children so much?”

“Russell is making us face issues most of us would prefer to remain ignorant of.”

“We have an amazing and unprecedented opportunity to interact with, comment on, and even create culture.”

“This is the problem of living in a world of conjecture — we fall victim to our own conjectures as well”

“We are tired of raising children to become a wuss culture, but that we have no idea how to go about fixing it.”