Wittgenstein's Most Beloved Quote Was Real, But It's Fake Now
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of fake philosophy quotes.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of fake philosophy quotes.
The importance of the 2010's to meme history was not in its novelty but its scale. During the 2010's, the world reached a cultural boiling point as the underground spilled out irreversibly into the mainstream and destroyed the boundaries between the two.
Sites of content production in Web 2.0 are strategic assets which make up the terrain of political conflict in hyperspace.
This article focuses on the ironic meme community and the geography of Facebook memepages.
The Ironic Meme Movement was a reaction against the mainstream co-option of the subcultural products of the underground; an attempt to create incorruptible inside jokes. The Ironics employed defensive strategies which paralleled that of the punks against the commercialization of their own subculture. Like the punks, they failed.
It seems to me that 'quotes' such as these which become canon in the public psyche take on a special kind of force that highlights the close relationship between truth and beauty, as well as the fact that the two are not one and the same--although (I hope you will agree) truth is often beautiful, and there is always some truth in beauty.