The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment

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Putting yourself first is not selfish. Thinking about yourself constantly is selfish. Please respect the difference” Popper, Nathaniel; Browning, Kellen (29 January 2021). "The 'Roaring Kitty' Rally: How a Reddit User and His Friends Roiled the Markets". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 15 June 2023. something that can rapidly imitate itself. Dawkins decides to call this “unit of imitation” a meme (adapted from the Greek mi meme Examples of memes include catchy tunes, phrases, images, fashions, and... Gottsch, John D. (2001). "Mutation, Selection, And Vertical Transmission Of Theistic Memes In Religious Canons". Journal of Memetics. 5 (1). Archived from the original on 12 April 2021 . Retrieved 8 October 2021. Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.” – Henry Ward Beecher

See also: Diffusion of innovations Imitating the famous cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road (1969), on which the band members cross the road in front of the Abbey Road Studios in a row, has become popular with fans and London visitors. The four actresses of the Japanese Manga/ media franchise Milky Holmes reenact the Beatles cover in 2010, extending the original Beatles meme by their film costumes. In 2011, four cosplayers imitate the above meme during the Manga convention Paris Manga 2012 at a zebra crossing in Paris, thus further separating the meme from the root situation of 1969 tied to the Abbey Road zebra crossing.

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Some theorists want to know why the “God” meme has psychological appeal, and whether there’s a genetic reason underlying it, but Dawkins thinks that’s... There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.” – Daniel Smith

The idea that biological change can be explained by appealing to transmission and selection factors was Darwin's idea. This idea has been elaborated in many important respects in the last 150 years, but Darwin's original insight has withstood the test of time. Biological change is best understood in terms of a Darwinian evolutionary system, a system where the composition of populations is determined by a combination of transmission and selection factors. The same is true of cultural change. Cultural change is best understood in terms of a system where the (cultural) composition of populations is determined by a combination of (cultural) transmission and selection factors. Culture is a Darwinian evolutionary system. Stang, Nicholas F. 2018. Kant’s transcendental idealism. In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/kant-transcendental-idealism (accessed 21 March 2019). Search in Google ScholarSalingaros, Nikos (2008). "Architectural memes in a universe of information". Theory of Architecture. Umbau-Verlag. ISBN 9783937954073.