>OK, silly question guys...is there anything that can be thought that
>could not be considered a meme?
By my criteria it must actually be transmitted before it falls in the
catagory of "meme". That avoids this mistaken assumption:
>Technically, anything that can be
>thought can be replicated to another mind.
But this is not so, my good man--technically or otherwise.
As an artist I can tell you that much of the heavy lifting within the Arts
is concerned with accomplishing that often herculian task of getting a
thought from _inside_ ones mind and into a form in which it can be
_transmitted_ into anothers mind. And it is no mean feet, let me tell you!
Often the most indirect and obtuse routes must be taken in order that, when
they finally converge in the mind of the viewer, the resultant reaction, the
"ah-ha", recreates the subte complexity of the original thought which served
as it's inspiration.
The incredible number of drafts and mis-starts that never make it
sucessfully out of the brain of an artist (and no doubt end up filling
countless landfills each year), stand as a testiment to the fact that not
all thoughts thunk are able to be replicated. And as such, do not all earn
the distinction of being called a "meme".
-Prof. Tim