Applied hypocrisy

[caddyman]

I decided some time back, that I really don't like memes¹; but I find myself doing the occasional one anyway. I suppose it depends upon the meme in question – those that demand a little thought are clearly preferable to those with happy, hazy graphics that tell you what your granny's maiden name was in Swahili, and which almost always bugger up the formatting of your friends' page. All in all they are just a lazy way of suggesting that we are still alive, but haven't got anything to enter into our LJ.

So, in the pursuit of satire, and not a little hypocrisy, I am creating a new meme; the meme to end all memes – and a testament to navel gazing:

The "My five favourite memes" meme.

Simply list the five most enjoyable pieces of time wasting self-indulgence you have encountered on live journal and post them into your own journal. Then sit back and revel in the delicious irony of it all.

It's that simple².

My list, in no particular order:

My ten favourite books;
My ten favourite films;
The last ten tracks randomly played by my MP3 player (a particular and perennial favourite of mine);
My ten favourite songs/albums;
A hundred things you never knew about (somebody).

See, it's easy. And it fills otherwise empty bandwidth with something completely inconsequential, which is the only thing you really need from the meme of memes.


¹-and I'm still not convinced that memes and these odd little things we fill out and spread around are the same thing. Still, popular usage and all that.

²It would have to be; it was me who thought of it.

Comments

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

Oooh, is that a meta-meme?

[cowjam.livejournal.com]

A meme, as I understood it, was a contageous idea/action. I personally wouldn't call the things that go around LJ as memes because it's hardly like I've ever desperately wanted to fill one in - I've only done it cos I'm bored. IMHO a real meme is something that stays in your head, and then gets passed on to your friend's head, and so on and so forth.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much my understanding, too. But as I said, 'popular usage' and all that. It wouldn't be the first word to pick up and develop additional meanings in different contexts.

[cowjam.livejournal.com]

True. I would've replied with the meme itself, but as with all memes involving n favourite things I can't think of a sufficient number.