One thing a lot of the cool kids are doing on facebook is posting albums of memes, as if just seeing one of the damned things at a time wasn’t bad enough.
You go online, hoping to find some intelligent conversation (perhaps I am expecting too much), and you see an endless display of platitudes on posters, it’s the parents’ kitchen from hell.
Occasionally, of course, you see a clever one, just as occasionally you see a clever bumper sticker, a clever T shirt, or an intelligent piece of graffiti. As crazy old Ross Perot used to say “even a blind pig finds an acorn now and again” and considering the quote came from Ross Perot, you kind of have to say QED on that one.
But the way I see it, posting those memes is cheating. It’s not your own idea, not your own thought, not your own words. Of course, it’s something you agree with, but that’s not interesting.
Also, because these things get posted again and again and again and again, there is a real good chance that, whatever it is, I’ve seen it before. I am sick of seeing that stupid “If you want to ban guns maybe we should ban spoons for making people fat” hardy har har, to which I have replied “That is a very poor analogy and even using it makes you sound like a moron” several times, but the meme keeps coming and I’ve already said my piece, so what can I do?
I don’t know. I suppose I’m in the minority, but I’ll keep on limiting my status updates and comments to things I actually thought up myself. I may make an exception now and again, if one is just overwhelmingly appropriate to the conversation, but feel free to call me on it if I do.
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