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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.
An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.
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See also sound of silence.
"And the people bowed and prayed to the neon gods theyd made" and "People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening."
I never really thought that hard on the lyrics decades back, but after the remake got so popular it creeped me the fuck out and I had to verify that those really had always been the lyrics and the words hadn't been subtly changed to reflect everything of today.
I've decided that Paul Simon must have invented a time machine, but when he went to check how awesome the future would be he looked around and ended up infected with clinical depression instead.