The Battle of the Memes

[Crow]

The Battle of the Memes
The Scene: 11PM, Bluesky coffeehouse, I sit a hermit in my expanse of academia and the table before me. The clutter of sorority chatter pecks at my ear. My mind decides to go for a stroll…
“Who are you?”
“Excuse me?”
“You have traveled here; it’s but a simple question. Who are you?”
“I am Richard.”
“NO! Who are you?”
“I told you.”
“What is in a name? What does it say about the real you? Nothing! Turn your eyes inward; look around. So I ask you again…Who-Are-You?”
“I am no one in particular.
I am the one who watches from afar.
I am the one who has done too little.
I am the man in the corner, who blends into the wall.
Sometime I have to remind myself to breathe.
I spend too much time online.
I think too much.
Thoughts come and go but nothing to bick about.
I have given my heart and it was returned dry and burnt on toast.
I yearn for a cause to live for,
I have so much to share; I find my mind overflows, loosing my thoughts constantly.
So I stare off frantically writing in a transfixed daze, not knowing when it has stared or stopped. I just write.
You ask me who I am? –
I am no one…a nothing
Just a cog in a machine, rotating clockwise
A monkey in a cage, panhandling for peanuts
Just a traveler…passing through.

 

[Stasis]

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"The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes. The avenues for entry and departure are modified to suit local conditions, and strengthened by various artificial devices that enhance fidelity and prolixity of replication: native Chinese minds differ dramatically from native French minds, and literate minds differ from illiterate minds. What memes provide in return to the organisms in which they reside is an incalculable store of advantages --- with some Trojan horses thrown in for good measure. . ." - Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained

 

[Nietzche]

Bravo Crowe! I am impressed . . . they may actualy be somthing in that asian mind of yours!

I have given my heart and it was returned dry and burnt on toast.

I am impressed, that was a superb line crowester.
Fred~

 

[MiNiMoWs]

you are amazing.

 

[ice-9]

damn this was good. You always impress, Crow.

 

[Dagny]

"As I counted up my demons,
Saw there was one for every day.
With the good ones on my shoulder,
I threw the other ones away."
Beautiful Crow.