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Annie Kelly
Team Human
The Myth of Memes
Memes were not some means of cultural alchemy for the counterculture if anything they showed how little autonomy human beings actually have according to Richard Dawkins memes just like genetic code are a kind of software determining everything about us. surrendering memes and culture to science is a bit like finding proof of one's gender identity in chromosomal chemistry on one level it's nice for someone who feels misgendered to be able to point to hormonal phenomenon that occurred in the womb but any requirement to find official material proof of one’s gender identification betrays the whole right to self-determination, writes Tom Negavan.
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