I hereby confer onto you the "meaninglessness of almost everything" meme in the form of the book by Tao Lin, Eeeee Eee Eeee.
"Eeeee Eee Eeee (Melville House Books, 212 pages, $15)—which is being published concurrently with his debut short-story collection, Bed—is
likewise eager to demonstrate the meaninglessness of almost everything
else. Absurdist memes like Jhumpa Lahiri, sledgehammers, hypothetical
murder, murder-by-dolphin, teleporting bears and OCD pop-culture
speculations ("Domino's is the more cutting edge version of Pizza
Hut... What is Denny's the more cutting edge version of?") are
machine-gunned throughout the book with such conspicuous irrelevance
that every possible cultural reference starts to seem interchangeable.
Even adjectives are often used sarcastically, sidestepping meaning in
favor of flat affect." Via Wilamette Week
Fairy tales are memes. Santa Clause is a meme. The American Dream is a meme because you strive for goals someone else suggested. Meme is nothing more than urban legend combined with culturalization. All western culture is a meme.
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