Publisher's Synopsis
Meme (/mi?m/) - Noun: 1) An idea, belief or element of social behavior spread that is transmitted from one person or group of people to another. 2) An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.This book is certainly not for children unless you want your kids to have a sick sense of humor. This medley by Queen Meme features funny, distasteful and outright should-be-banned memes you wouldn't even share with your friends! Want to get out of Thanksgiving at your friend's? Buy them this book!Want to get out of work early and never go back? Send a copy of this book to your boss!Want three meals a day, television and a roof over your head, rent free? Get in a wheelchair and shoot your wife with a shotgun through the bathroom door!Full of jokes that will offend your folks. The sort of book banned in schools. The type of humor you'll go to jail for.DISCLAIMER: If you're easily offended, why would you even make a conscious choice to buy this book? P*ss off and hide under your rock. No Butthurt Required.Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Memes, like genes, are replicators, and this enthralling book is an investigation without commentary of whether this link between genes and memes can lead to important discoveries about the nature of the inner self. Confronting the deepest questions about our inner selves, with all our emotions, memories, beliefs, and decisions, Susan Blackmore makes a compelling case for the theory that the inner self is merely an illusion created by the memes for the sake of replication. Everything in this book is nicked.Good for a laugh, not much else
