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[metaphorge]

Many people often seem to become upset when memes they personally hold important or identify with are replicated in what they feel to be an inexact fashion.

Agree, disagree, commentary?

(I feel the wikipedia article on "cultural appropriation" has good things to say on and examples of this subject.)

Comments

[roadriverrail.livejournal.com]

...or more.

[gorillashaman.livejournal.com]

Memes without the vociferous purity component are not likely to survive.

[roadriverrail.livejournal.com]

Do you have empirical evidence to back that up?

[gorillashaman.livejournal.com]

Anything I offer will be deductive rather than empirical.

If there are no checks against mutation, then mutations are far more likely to occur. If mutations are likely, then the odds of finding the same meme after many generations becomes vanishingly small.

[roadriverrail.livejournal.com]

Anything I offer will be deductive rather than empirical.

Then I'm going to just leave things as they are.