This post is so interesting and has given me a lot of inspiration;
I am a mememaxi 🐸🐸, and I can't help but think of a few more questions:
Meme is the gene of culture, a direct expression of emotions and hormones, and once there is a token, it becomes tokenized;
Many times, memes are indeed the atomic units of narrative;
This perspective is profound and explains how cultural dissemination often starts with a sentence or a meme, exploding through emotions to cover many groups, eventually growing into narratives;
But many times, another perspective also exists;
What if the meme itself is not just a "pure emotional expression," but rather a compressed expression containing some narrative or values? That also makes sense;
For example, PEPE itself expresses the self-identity of the NEET group or the loser spirit of not giving up, even an expression of Anti-Elite Social Media;
If we talk about the core expression of memes, does it include narratives or values themselves, rather than being completely chaotic and disordered emotions and hormones? Could this also explain the source of Memetic power?
Or discussing BTC, its trustlessness, permissionlessness, and limited supply;
It itself is a very strong narrative, but they also constitute the atomic core of memes, short and powerful, giving rise to many memes: laser eyes, HODL, 1BTC=1BTC;
So, are memes and narratives often not a structural and sub-structural relationship;
But rather two sides of a coin, mutually atomic units;
Settlement/clearing occurs synchronously in BTC;
Memes and narratives, many times, are also generated synchronously and nested within each other;
- Narrative stimulates the power of memes;
- The emotions and dissemination of memes drive the expansion of narratives;
Ultimately, they form a kind of cultural closed loop;
I am now more inclined to see memes and narratives as:
- Two sides of a coin for some cultural and emotional dissemination;
- Not distinguishing between priority, and often not clearly differentiating ownership, existing in a dynamic collaboration;
Anyway, it's not about right or wrong;
This post has given me great inspiration and helped me think through some things further;
What is the difference between meme and narrative?
Meme is the "gene" of culture, which generally exists in the form of memes, symbols, slogans, etc., with humor, satire and other characteristics, and is highly disseminated.
Narrative is an "organ" composed of memes and events (stories), which generally exist in the form of stories and worldviews, ideologies, values, etc., and they need to be spread by memes.
If a narrative does not trigger a large number of good enough memes, it will be difficult to detonate popularity and continue to spread.
A meme, once it has gone through the test of time, will also grow its own narrative, such as Pepe and Doge, both have memes first and then narratives.
People who are sensitive to intuition and have strong information fragmentation are more likely to feel memes; People who are accustomed to integrating meaning and seeking causal logic are more likely to believe in narratives.
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