Memes do well in refining meaning, often producing the best from any basic mass of everyday people...
Even in it's weakest form, and perhaps because of it's weak form, memes enable accessibility where the best can still be taken from what almost anyone can say and send to the world about anything!
This kind of low-tech is what I feel is underestimated by those higher up in skill or understanding where too much specialisation is a thing (call it over-specialist) and importantly the human connection is sometimes lost completely where memes can often connect people AND other things (or the other way around) ...in humour, creativity, cross-culture references, basic 'shitty' funny art, real relativity to our own day-to-day, emotional intelligences, comparisons etc etc!)...
[ The next bit below doesn't fit quite right so I might cut out in future but for all the technologist out there I wanted to add this as a bit of teasing but also to serious ask the question as I'd like to know if it exists... ]
now show me where sciences do the above list and where many enjoy it personally outside of the more serious-only type of facts!
So that's asking if similar things exist in sciences? ...to have humour, creativity, cross-culture references, basic 'shitty' funny art, real relativity to our own day-to-day in it's own world
...or did memes basically come along and do it for us all?